GitHub Copilot GPT-5.5, Desktop App, Usage-Based Billing, CLI, Remote Control GA

Desktop app with Agent Merge, billing backlash 10x-50x spikes. VS Code 1.133 adds Agents window. MAI-Code-1.1-Flash released. Agent Plugins 1.0 GA. Internal cost discipline narrative continues. New: Grok 4.6 and Kimi K3 models added; per-turn model switching in VS Code. Governance gap: no model attribution in build records. Major GitHub outage (8 hours, 20-50% error rates) disrupted Copilot/Actions; now resolved. New: GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw—actual story is human-written code exploited by Red Agent, correcting viral narrative. New: Integration guide for Copilot cloud agent with Azure Boards published. New: Visual Studio 2026 adds thinking-effort knob (Low/Medium/High) to control Copilot token cost, plus Git agent for pre-PR reviews and multi-file diff.