GitHub Next • Copilot Workspace Sunset

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🌅 GitHub Next • Copilot Workspace Sunset

Last updated: 2025-05-21

📅 On May 30th 2025 we will be concluding the technical preview of Copilot Workspace. After that date, you will not be able to create new Workspaces or access existing ones. Any pull requests you created with Copilot Workspace are unaffected — they are normal pull requests like any other.

Copilot Workspace was actually our second attempt at figuring out how to make repo-scale suggestions work well and feel great. The techniques that made GitHub Copilot's completions feel great — low latency, the amodality of ghost text — don't work when you scale up the size of suggestions from short snippets to entire diffs. Our first attempt at this was the Copilot for Pull Requests project, which effectively looked like a bot that you could summon into your pull request to explain the changes and suggest new ones. At the time, the models weren't quite strong enough to make that work well. But time marches onwards, and the latest models are much more capable.

We pioneered techniques for reasoning about codebases which are larger than the context window. Those techniques are at the heart of new products from both GitHub and broader Microsoft. Your usage of the technical preview is what enabled us to reach for these new capabilities. We're grateful that you joined us on that journey, and shared your feedback with us. The products that are starting to come out now would not have been possible otherwise.

To that end, you should check out VS Code's Edit and Agent Modes, as well as the newly announced Copilot Coding Agent (née Project Padawan). We know it's not a 1:1 match with the current capabilities of CW, but that's the future. Going from research previews to shipped products is a hard piece of business, and at the end of the day, that's the goal of a group like GitHub Next.

You can stay tuned to the GitHub Blog for news about new agentic AI products. We are also looking forward to sharing more news about Spark in the coming weeks!

Meanwhile, the team at Next is already back in the lab and cooking up new prototypes. You can spot new projects at githubnext.com, or better yet: see you on the Next discord.

Thank you!

✌️❤️ GitHub Next

Really hate to see it happen as I was beginning to love this tool. I hope to see GitHub app updates to deprecate this quickly and help us implement some way of linking to the Copilot Coding Agent!

It is a pity cause I think the future is more in line with the Workspace than with he chat agents. Or at least a tool that lets you have both. Workspace was a way for the developer to have more control and guide the agent, which helped to make more complex commits.

Great design and I loved the experience.

workspace looked really really good. Never was able to make decent edits with it...but the whole process of planning felt really good.

Damn that sucks. I really liked this feature.

Muito bom 😃

Hope even this short-period help people at Next! We had fun to experience such cool toolkit. 🤘

Keep it. put more usage behind it. its better than the new copilot features.

I really liked this tool, it felt like it only needed to smooth some sharp edges, though it is already great to work in small to medium things and approaches quickly.

I'm sorry to see this decision. In my opinion, it was a great direction—not just supporting coding itself, but enabling assistance throughout the entire process, from specification to documentation, in a highly customizable way at every step.

Anyway, goodbye workspace—hello agent!

I enjoyed this over Agent mode in VSCode because it allowed me to do quick edits via Copilot without needing to open VSCode and set up the project I was working on. I hope this comes back in some form or fashion in the future. I really enjoyed the control and flexibility it offered.

Will there be an alternative solution that allows for copilot to solve simple issues on mobile devices? I thought it was really cool being able to work on my personal projects even while away from my computer.

Nd dnd

Farewell Workspace 🤧

Hope even this short-period help people at Next! We had fun to experience such cool toolkit. 🤘

Ah this was a great tool... hope to see more features in Agent mode soon !

Sad to see it gone away. Expected it to be at least available as some beta feature etc. It has immense potential given how we learn to interact with it.

I think the biggest missing thing compared to copilot in code is the planning phase, where I can review what the agent thinks it should do and make tweaks or additions.

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sad news! Im missing this tool.

That was the most useful Copilot tool for me. Too sad!

One of the finest tools in the Copilot segment to use. Just get into the workspace and evaluate your project and start building it or vibe coding it.

:(

The best UX coding agent I've seen. Please bring it back in some forms

echt schade 😥

That was indeed a great idea! Loved it too, hopefully you will launch it again :-)

it was just the best i stroll don't understand why it dead

Please make this tool free for some couple of months, I just missed this amazing tool.

Keep it. put more usage behind it. its better than the new copilot features.

I would prefer it on anohter isolated codespace instead of my heavy and thick local vscode. That should be the way to avoid monolith IDE.