Q&A Session About Latest GitHub Updates from July 18th

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Hey everyone! The GitHub development team is here for another community Q&A session about our latest feature rollouts.

We want to hear what you think about these new updates:

  • Copilot AI Assistant - New coding helper tool now in beta testing
  • Remote GitHub MCP Integration - Cloud-based development protocol support
  • VS Code Version 1.102 - Latest editor release with GitHub features
  • MCP Protocol in VS Code - Model Context Protocol now fully supported

Our product team will be available this Friday between 9-11 AM Pacific Time (that’s 12-2 PM Eastern) to answer your questions.

Team Members Joining:

  • Tim Rogers - Product Strategy Lead
  • Dimitrios Philliou - Feature Development Manager
  • Pierce Boggan - VS Code Integration Lead

How This Works:
Just post your questions in the comments section. Vote up the ones you find most interesting. We’ll tackle the popular questions first and then move through the rest.

Looking forward to chatting with you all on Friday!

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Thanks for setting this up. I’ve been using the Copilot AI Assistant beta for two weeks now. It’s great for boilerplate code, but I’m wondering about the long-term roadmap for context awareness. Right now it struggles with bigger codebases where you need consistent architectural patterns. Any plans to help Copilot learn project-specific conventions and existing design patterns? Also, will MCP integration eventually let us do custom model training on private repos? Would be huge for matching company coding standards.