Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP assist rolling out to all VS Code customers

In celebration of MSFT’s fiftieth anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP assist to all VS code customers. We’re additionally saying the brand new GitHub Copilot Professional+ plan w/ premium requests, the final availability of fashions from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, subsequent edit solutions for code completions & the Copilot code evaluate agent. Permit

In celebration of MSFT’s fiftieth anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP assist to all VS code customers. We’re additionally saying the brand new GitHub Copilot Professional+ plan w/ premium requests, the final availability of fashions from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, subsequent edit solutions for code completions & the Copilot code evaluate agent.

Permit us to reintroduce ourselves: GitHub Copilot is getting an entire lot extra agentic with elevated context of your instruments and providers, powered by the world’s main fashions, beginning right now. 👏

We’re excited to roll out agent mode in Visible Studio Code to all customers, now full with MCP assist that unlocks entry to any context or capabilities you need. What’s extra, we’re thrilled to launch a brand new open supply and native GitHub MCP server, providing you with the flexibility so as to add GitHub performance to any LLM software that helps MCP. 🤖

In line with our dedication to supply multi-model selection, we’re making Anthropic Claude 3.5, 3.7 Sonnet, 3.7 Sonnet Pondering, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAI o3-mini usually accessible through premium requests, included in all paid Copilot tiers. These premium requests are along with limitless requests for agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions that every one paid plans have when utilizing our base mannequin (👀 extra under). With the brand new Professional+ tier, particular person builders get essentially the most out of the most recent fashions with Copilot.

The agent awakening doesn’t cease there. We’re additionally saying the final availability of the Copilot code evaluate agent, which in simply over a month in preview has been utilized by over 1 million builders on GitHub. Plus, the final availability of subsequent edit solutions so you may tab tab tab your solution to coding glory. 🏆

Agent mode in VS Code

Agent mode is progressively rolling out to VS Code customers in steady, as we goal for full availability to all customers within the coming weeks. It’s also possible to manually allow it now. In comparison with chat or multi-file edits, which let you suggest code adjustments throughout a number of recordsdata in your workspace, agent mode is basically able to taking motion to translate your concepts into code. With easy prompts, agent mode takes Copilot past answering a query, as a substitute finishing all vital subtasks throughout mechanically recognized or generated recordsdata to make sure your major objective is achieved. Agent mode can recommend terminal instructions or software calls and ask you to execute them. It additionally analyzes run-time errors with self-healing capabilities.

Because the launch to VS Code Insiders in February, builders have been utilizing agent mode for a wide range of duties: from autofixing code gen errors, to constructing webapps, to yeeting commits – no matter which means. 🙂

Agent mode is powered by your selection of Claude 3.5 and three.7 Sonnet, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAI GPT-4o. At the moment, agent mode achieves a cross price of 56.0% on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. We anticipate agent mode to develop extra succesful as chain of thought reasoning fashions proceed to advance.

To activate agent mode, improve to the most recent VS Code and allow in settings.

Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) is now accessible in public preview

Builders spend their days conducting a wide selection of duties to get the job performed, from analysis, to navigating telemetry, to infrastructure administration, to coding and debugging. They usually use many instruments for this, the so-called engineering stack. MCP lets you equip agent mode with the context and capabilities it wants that can assist you, like a USB port for intelligence. While you enter a chat immediate in agent mode inside VS Code, the mannequin can use totally different instruments to deal with duties like understanding database schema or querying the online. This setup permits for extra interactive and context-sensitive coding assist.

For instance, with a immediate to “Replace my GitHub profile to incorporate the title of the PR that was assigned to me yesterday,” agent mode would take that request, mixed with the record of all accessible MCP instruments, and ask an LLM what to do subsequent. Over time, the agent would proceed calling instruments iteratively, till the duty is full.

Already, GitHub is residence to an enormous and rising MCP ecosystem which you can uncover and use right now. Right here is a good repository that acts as a neighborhood stock with among the greatest MCP servers to make use of. The GitHub native MCP server equips agent mode with compelling capabilities reminiscent of looking throughout repositories and code, managing points and creating PRs – turning agent mode into a robust person of the GitHub platform.

Get began by establishing native and distant MCP servers and utilizing instruments with agent mode in Visible Studio Code. To get began with the GitHub native MCP server, go to the repository, now supported natively in VS Code.

Premium mannequin requests

Since GitHub Universe, we launched numerous new fashions for chat, multi-file edits, and now agent mode. With the final availability of those fashions, we’re introducing a brand new premium request kind. Premium requests are along with the limitless requests for agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions in all paid plans for our base mannequin (presently: OpenAI GPT-4o).

Clients with Copilot Professional will obtain 300 month-to-month premium requests, starting on Might 5, 2025. Clients with Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Enterprise will obtain 300 and 1000 month-to-month premium requests respectively, beginning between Might 12 and Might 19, 2025. Till then, use of those premium fashions is limitless.

We’re additionally introducing a brand new Professional+ plan for people with 1500 month-to-month premium requests and entry to one of the best fashions, like GPT-4.5, for $39 monthly.

Copilot paid customers1 may even have the flexibility to pay-as-you-go for extra premium request utilization. People and organizations can select to opt-in to make use of extra requests past their included quantity, along with setting spending limits on requests to regulate prices with ease. GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Enterprise directors can handle requests through their Copilot Admin Billing Settings. Further premium requests begin at $0.04 per request.

Every premium mannequin will eat a particular variety of premium requests, permitting you to make use of a extra highly effective or environment friendly mannequin while you want it, all when you have continued, limitless entry to Copilot’s base mannequin.

You possibly can study extra about how seat-based premium requests will work in our documentation

Completely satisfied fiftieth birthday, Microsoft!

At the moment can also be a trademark second within the historical past of know-how: our mothership turns 50! From the creation of BASIC or MS-DOS, to the .NET Framework and VS Code, to the acquisition of GitHub – Microsoft has all the time been a developer firm at coronary heart. Half a century of dev love isn’t any small feat. ❤️

Now, with GitHub Copilot – what began out as a developer platform firm is a platform the place anybody could be a developer. Collectively, GitHub and Microsoft absolutely intend on enabling a world with 1 billion builders. 🗺️

Get began with Copilot and check out agent mode right now