# copilot-cli v1.0.81 — 1.0.81

- Product: copilot-cli (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/copilot-cli)
- Vendor: GitHub
- Date: 2026-08-27
- Version: v1.0.81
- Original notes: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.81
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/copilot-cli/releases/v1.0.81

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- **added** — The plugins dashboard is available to everyone via /plugin, /mcp, or /skills commands
- **added** — Ship MCP 2026-07-28 support to CLI, SDK, IDE, and in-memory clients
- **added** — Hooks can now receive the current OpenTelemetry trace context and emit correlated spans with traceparent and tracestate
- **added** — Windows remote MCP servers protected by Microsoft Entra ID can sign in through OS authentication broker (WAM)
- **added** — Add xhigh reasoning effort support for Grok 4.6
- **added** — Startup now offers to restore sessions that were still open when their CLI went away
- **added** — models.list now includes service-published infoMessages and warningMessages per model
- **added** — Add copilot app command to open the GitHub Copilot app in the current directory
- **added** — Add defaultMode and defaultPermissionMode settings to choose startup mode and approval behavior for new interactive sessions
- **added** — Add --with-token flag to copilot login to read an auth token from stdin
- **added** — Add support for Gemini 3.7 Flash
- **added** — Add Ctrl+E in /sandbox to open settings.json in your editor
- **added** — Add per-agent usage metrics to --usage-output-file JSON output
- **changed** — Repeated read_agent calls now consistently return the full turn history unless since_turn is provided
- **changed** — Hook lifecycle events from hooks inside a subagent are now recorded on that subagent's session and re-emitted on its parent
- **changed** — Auto mode now adapts model selection as your task evolves during a conversation
- **changed** — Resume large sessions faster by showing recent history first while older messages load
- **changed** — x is now the delete key everywhere instead of d
- **fixed** — Repeatedly resuming the same session no longer crashes while telemetry is being replaced
- **fixed** — An MCP server blocked by an enterprise policy now shows as blocked in /mcp instead of spinning as pending forever

2026-08-27

- The plugins dashboard is available to everyone: run `/plugin`, `/mcp`, or `/skills`. Set `PLUGINS_DASHBOARD=false` to opt out of it and the `copilot plugins` command.
- Ship MCP 2026-07-28 support to CLI, SDK, IDE, and in-memory clients
- Hooks can now receive the current OpenTelemetry trace context and emit correlated spans: inputs gain `traceparent` (plus `tracestate` when the span has vendor state); command hooks also get env vars.
- Windows: remote MCP servers protected by Microsoft Entra ID can now sign in through the OS authentication broker (WAM), usually with no prompt at all. Other platforms, `--device-code`, and machines without the broker library keep the existing browser flow.
- Add xhigh reasoning effort support for Grok 4.6
- Startup now offers to restore sessions that were still open when their CLI went away, so a crash or a machine restart no longer means reopening each terminal by hand
- models.list now includes service-published infoMessages and warningMessages per model
- Add `copilot app` to open the GitHub Copilot app in the current directory
- Add defaultMode and defaultPermissionMode settings to choose startup mode and approval behavior for new interactive sessions
- Add --with-token to copilot login to read an auth token from stdin
- Add support for Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Add Ctrl+E in /sandbox to open settings.json in your editor
- Add per-agent usage metrics to --usage-output-file JSON output
- Repeated read_agent calls now consistently return the full turn history unless since_turn is provided
- Hook lifecycle events (`hook.start`/`hook.end`) from hooks inside a subagent are now recorded on that subagent's session and re-emitted on its parent, instead of being dropped on an internal session.
- Repeatedly resuming the same session no longer crashes while telemetry is being replaced
- An MCP server blocked by an enterprise policy now shows as blocked in /mcp instead of spinning as pending forever
- Fixed an indefinite "Loading…/Resuming…" hang at startup when a repository plugin activates a contributed extension (or another extension reload races the initial load), which previously left the environment stuck on "still waiting on extensions"
- Vim mode badge stays visible beside the activity indicator during turns
- The startup status finishes after extension configuration during plugin reconciliation
- Signing out of an account now clears its cached enterprise managed settings, so signing back in generally re-fetches the policy rather than re-applying the one cached before sign-out
- An enterprise managed-settings policy is no longer rejected when `permissions.disableBypassPermissionsMode` carries an unrecognized value; it is now logged and enforced as `disable`.
- Sandboxed builds on Windows create their scratch caches on first run, so cargo, go, Gradle, and ccache work without a warm cache
- On macOS and Linux, shell commands resolve the same tools a bash login shell does, including project environments activated from a profile
- Canvas windows open and refresh in the background instead of stealing focus from your terminal
- A prompt sent while the agent is working no longer leaves a second copy of itself stuck as `(pending)` at the bottom of the transcript after it has been answered
- Turning allow-all off from an ACP client now reaches the permission engine whenever there is a runtime override or auto-approval to revoke, so the setting can no longer report success while permissions stay enabled (a baseline granted by --allow-all-\* launch flags is still deliberately left intact)
- A failed tool call no longer stacks its `(MCP: server)` label one character per line down the timeline — the label and the error now share the row, with the longer side truncating
- Agents, skills and MCP servers contributed by installed plugins are no longer dropped in non-interactive (-p) runs, so --agent <plugin>:<agent> works headlessly without --plugin-dir
- Typing `$` and pressing Enter opens the interacti

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