Agent Beta

• Added tool calling support for Claude models in GitHub Copilot Chat. (#28035)
• Added support for AWS Bedrock. (#28137)
  • Added Claude 3.7 Thinking support.
  • Added Cross Region Inference for all combinations of regions and model availability.
  • Added advanced authentication strategies with:
    • Short lived credentials with Session Tokens
    • AWS Named Profile
    • EC2 Identity, Pod Identity, Web Identity
• Added support for renaming threads. (#28102)
• Enabled token-efficient tool use (beta) for Claude 3.7 Sonnet models. (#28100)
• Tool call's input and output content are now rendered with Markdown, which allows them to be selected and copied. (#28127)
• The read_files tool now reads only the symbol outline files above a certain size, to conserve context window space. Then it suggests that the agent call read_files again with the relevant line ranges it saw in the outline. (#28158)
• The scrollbar now automatically hides if there's no mouse movement on the thread list. (#28129)
• Disabled tools that are redundant in the presence of the bash tool. (#28114)
• Removed edit_files tool in favor of find_replace. (#28041)
• Fixed delay after removing threads from "Past Interactions". (#28188)
• Fixed delay after adding/removing context via keyboard. (#28188)
• Fixed a delay when sending the first message in a new thread. (#28180)
• Fixed assistant: open prompt library not opening the prompt library when the Assistant Panel was not focused. (#28156)
• Fixed an issue where selecting "Configure" in the model selector would not bring up the configuration view. (#28155)
• Fixed a bug where the history view wouldn't refresh after deleting a thread. (#28144)
• Fixed an occasional panic that would occur when navigating to the next change hunk with a pending inline transformation present. (#28049)
• Fixed a panic when running the agent: open agent diff command with the Agent Panel closed. (#28132)
• Fixed deleting threads in history via keyboard. (#28113)

Other Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen when expanding diff hunks with multiple cursors in one hunk. (#28117)
• Fixed an issue where GitHub Copilot would not install properly if the directory was not present. (#28178)
• Fixed an issue where dismissing the git onboarding banner would not be persisted across sessions. (#28148)