GitHub Copilot CLI adds git-free rewind and parallel worktrees
August's Copilot drop spans the CLI, desktop app, and VS Code 1.132: side chats that keep your prompt cache, model transparency, and in-page element comments.
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Rewind agent edits without a Git commit
Copilot CLI's new /rewind restores your conversation and file changes even in repos with no Git history, so you can undo an agent's work without stashing or committing first. A live timeline now shows each tool call's duration to help you catch slow steps.
Isolated worktrees and a session sidebar
An experimental /worktree command spins up isolated workspaces so parallel conversations don't collide, and a new sidebar juggles multiple concurrent CLI sessions: press n to open one, x to close it.
Side questions that keep your context
/side in the desktop app and /btw in VS Code open a side chat that inherits the main conversation's context and prompt cache, so a quick tangent doesn't reset your session. The app also now labels which model handled each request, with credit and cache details.
VS Code 1.132: comment on the live page
Copilot's browser now lets you select and annotate multiple elements directly on a rendered web page, and on-device multilingual dictation transcribes in your set language, system locale, or auto-detect, with no cloud round-trip.