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GitHub makes Copilot's Agentic Autofix for code scanning alerts generally available

Now GA as of Oct 23, the Copilot coding agent investigates a CodeQL alert, writes a fix, reruns CodeQL to confirm it, and opens a draft PR, with up to 25 alerts batchable into one PR. It only covers alerts on the default branch and needs GitHub Code Security or Advanced Security on Enterprise Cloud, an admin-enabled policy, and a Copilot billing method.

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Study: a coding agent's harness can triple cost per task without improving accuracy

Shandong University researchers held models fixed and ran Claude Code, OpenCode, and the 100 line mini SWE agent on 492 SWE bench Verified tasks, finding statistically equivalent success rates but up to 3x differences in cost per task. On the 45 hardest tasks, switching harnesses flipped results about as often as simply rerunning the same setup (13%), so small single run benchmark gaps say little…

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Copilot Autofix in Azure DevOps now fixes vulnerable dependencies and third-party scanner alerts

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps now uses the Copilot coding agent to propose pull request fixes for dependency vulnerabilities and third party scanning findings, following repo instructions and skills in .github or .agents . It also adds EPSS exploit likelihood percentiles and dev versus runtime dependency labels to triage, and you still review and merge every fix yourself…

OpsHub ships an MCP server so Claude Code and Copilot can run its integration manager, minus deletes

Announced Oct 23, the server at <OIM URL /OpsHubWS/mcp lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code with Copilot, Cline, and Continue check integration health, build Jira/ServiceNow/Azure DevOps mappings, and retry failed records under the user's own OIM permissions. Delete operations are blocked, MCP changes are tagged in audit logs, and it needs the Professional or Ultimate edition plus a local account or API key, since LDAP and SAML users can't sign in (docs)…

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