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GitHub exposes named agent customizations in Copilot metrics

Copilot usage reports now identify custom skills, agents, MCP servers, commands and plugins by configured name, with up to 25 entries per record. The change helps administrators track adoption, although client coverage varies and earlier reports remain unchanged.

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GitHub #Copilot #Collaboration #DeveloperTools

GitHub combines notifications and Copilot in its Teams app

GitHub consolidated notifications and Copilot into one Teams app, letting a mention turn an issue notification into an investigated fix and pull request. Teams still review, test and merge changes; the legacy Copilot app is scheduled to retire November 16.

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Study finds tools can make model rankings more prompt-sensitive

An October 22 preprint compared six open models across five domains and five prompt wordings, finding that tools improved some accuracy results while destabilizing many pairwise rankings. The authors recommend reporting tool-call frequency and ranking stability alongside accuracy.

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