GitHub Copilot will soon decide whether coding tasks run locally or get sent to cloud models , with automatic routing expected by the end of October. Microsoft outlined the plan Wednesday in a post co-written by Patrick Nikoletich , a GitHub product manager, and Stuart Schaefer , a Windows platform partner architect. The announcement coincided with GitHub making its new sandboxing controls generally available, but the protections differ depending on which tools Copilot uses. Shell commands and local MCP servers receive OS-level restrictions, while built-in file tools rely on checks inside the...

Source: The New Stack