Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped git.addAICoAuthor to all in 1.118 builds.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 has drawn sharp criticism for automatically adding a “Co-Authored-by: Copilot” tag to Git commits by default, even for some users not actively using Copilot. The ...

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code feature that automatically added 'Co‑authored‑by: Copilot' to Git commits, even when the AI tool was not used. The update, introduced in March 2026, drew ...

Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share ...