Keep quality high with smarter reviews and organization controls

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Help teams move faster, strengthen quality, and manage GitHub at scale

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SEPTEMBER EDITION Empower teams, strengthen governance, and accelerate delivery

TOP RELEASE TO TRY Maintain velocity and quality across large changes With stacked pull requests, teams can break a large change into smaller pull requests focused on a single change or set of files. Reviewers can review all pull requests in context, while still reviewing and merging them independently, making large updates easier to manage without lowering the quality bar. This feature is in public preview. Useful if you want to: Simplify review workflows for large changes. Keep major updates moving across teams. Maintain consistent quality across different layers of work. Start using stacked pull requests

AGENT PLUGINS Scale plugin reuse across compatible agent clients Package agent skills and MCP servers into a plugin using Agent Plugins 1.0 and make it available across compatible agent clients without maintaining separate manifests or directory configurations. Standardizing how teams deploy plugins reduces administrative overhead and helps extend agent capabilities more efficiently. Learn how to simplify plugin management across agent clients

COPILOT Balance code review depth with efficiency Match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk of a pull request, either for an individual change or across your organization. Use lighter effort levels for straightforward updates and reserve more thorough reviews for complex changes, helping teams manage costs while maintaining confidence in critical code. Learn how to set the right review effort for every change

More updates this month

Scale MCP deployments with a consistent standard GitHub MCP Server supports the stateless MCP protocol, making it easier to scale MCP deployments across teams and enterprise environments. Extend enterprise management securely with third-party apps Install apps designed outside your enterprise to support enterprise management scenarios. In addition, OAuth and GitHub App enhancements provide stronger security for integrations. See repository ruleset trends across your organization Review aggregated rule insights across your entire organization instead of checking repositories individually. Spot trends, identify gaps, and focus administrative attention where it is needed most. This is in public preview. New models include MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, and Grok 4.5 All of these models are newly released and available for you to use with Copilot. Bring more team context into every Copilot code review Copilot code review uses agent skills and MCP server connections you configure to incorporate more of your team’s context into reviews, helping teams apply their standards more consistently. Set enterprise boundaries while enabling team flexibility Use a customized managed-settings.json file to define which Copilot settings enterprise teams can override, enabling team-specific configurations without losing centralized governance. Apply a consistent CodeQL configuration across repositories Set a repository property that points to a custom CodeQL configuration file and reuse it across repositories in your organization, reducing repeated setup and configuration drift. For a more detailed look, check out our latest Enterprise Roundup.

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