GitHub Copilot has added Claude Haiku 5.5 for subscribers on its Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans, while local sandboxing has reached general availability. The sandboxing feature lets users restrict agents’ access to credentials, files and networks, and comes with Copilot without an additional charge. Users can apply those restrictions in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code sessions that use Agent Host.
The Copilot app also supports using one GitHub account for repository access and a different account for the Copilot subscription. That includes using a license supplied by an enterprise while working with repositories accessed through another account, giving users a way to separate those two parts of their setup.
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For developers running models locally, GitHub Copilot CLI now offers model discovery through the /model command. It can find supported models in an Ollama instance running locally, placing those choices alongside models the user has configured and cloud models supplied through GitHub Copilot. GitHub says this lets developers choose a local model within their existing CLI workflow.
In VS Code version 1.141, the Agents window lets users put agent sessions next to one another instead of viewing each session separately. A grid arrangement supports comparing the results of different sessions or watching several tasks at once. The release also adds a chat option named “Open worktree cleanup” for managing disk space taken up by inactive session worktrees.
That cleanup tool shows the amount of storage those inactive worktrees occupy and lets users select which ones to remove.
The changes follow GitHub’s earlier release update making Claude Sonnet 5.5 available across the same five subscription tiers, while GPT-6.1 Sol was offered to Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. Separately, GitHub said this week that IDE sessions moved to the Copilot SDK had been missing from usage reports or misclassified as CLI activity because they lacked IDE identification, with fixes rolling out to each IDE.
