Copilot's local sandboxing is GA. Here's what it actually restricts

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:01:00 +0000

GitHub announced on October 7 that local sandboxing for Copilot is generally available, across the Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code sessions that use Agent Host. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it’s included with Copilot at no extra cost . The changelog is short on detail, so the useful part is in the docs.

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Copilot's local sandboxing is GA. Here's what it actually restricts