Web search in GitHub Copilot Chat now available for Copilot Individual

GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code, Visual Studio, and GitHub.com now supports web search, enabling you to easily chat about recent events, new developments, trends, and technologies. This feature is already available for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise.

To get started, first enable the “Copilot Access to Bing” policy in your Copilot Settings.

Then try it out with Copilot Chat by asking a question that would benefit from web search. Here are some examples:

  • What's the latest release of node.js
  • What are some recent articles about SAT tokens securing against vulnerabilities in Node?

For more information, check out our documentation and join the discussion within the GitHub Community!

GitHub Copilot code review in GitHub.com (public preview)

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With Copilot code review in GitHub.com, you get fast, AI-powered feedback on your code, so you can start iterating while you wait for a human review.

Copilot code review on GitHub.com is launching in public preview today for Copilot Individual, Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise subscribers. Sign up to the waitlist to request access.

You can request a review on your pull request by picking “Copilot” from the Reviewers menu. Administrators can configure automatic reviews for every pull request using repository rules.

Screenshot of requesting a review from Copilot

Copilot will review your changes and attach its comments to specific lines of your code, including one-click fixes where possible.

Screenshot of committing a suggestion from Copilot

You can jump from these suggestions into the new Copilot Workspace experience in the context of the pull request to refine and validate Copilot’s suggestions. Learn more in the changelog.

Copilot can also review your code in Visual Studio Code before you push; see the changelog for more details.

To learn more about GitHub Copilot Code review, head over to the docs. To ask questions or share feedback, head to our discussion on the GitHub Community.

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View an organization’s REST API activity with API insights in public preview

As a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization owner, you and your designated users can now use API insights to visualize REST API activity for your entire organization or specific apps and users. This new feature, currently in public preview, helps you understand the sources of your REST API activity and manage against your primary rate limits—giving you visibility into the timeframe, apps, and API endpoints involved.

Who can access it

The API insights feature is available only at the organization level. By default, only organization owners can access it. However, organization owners can grant access to non-owners by creating a custom role at the organization level, assigning the permission named View organization API insights to the custom role, and then assigning the custom role to an organization member or team. See the documentation for managing organization custom roles.

Where to find it

The API insights public preview feature is enabled for all GitHub Enterprise Cloud organizations. To access it on your organization home page, select Insights near the top of the page, and then select REST API on the left side of the page.

An image of an organization homepage where selecting Insights and then REST API will navigate to the new API insights feature.

How to use it

Use the Period and Interval drop-downs to choose the range of time displayed in the chart and how granularly to display REST API requests on the chart. These drop-downs also set the time range for the “Total REST requests,” the “Primary-rate-limited requests,” and the Actors table below the chart.

An image of the API insights feature page showing the Period drop-down expanded for selecting the time period of REST API activity to include.

The Actors table displays the GitHub Apps and users that made REST API requests in the current organization within the selected time period. Select a GitHub App to display its REST API activity and any primary-rate-limiting. Select a user to display their personal REST API activity from personal access tokens (PATs) and OAuth apps acting on their behalf.

An image of the API insights feature page showing a table of actors, including GitHub Apps and users, that created REST API activity in the selected time period.

Tell us what you think

We welcome your feedback in this community discussion.

Refer to the documentation for API insights for more details about understanding your organization’s REST API activity and investigating primary-rate-limiting.

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