GitHub Universe 2026: Copilot Fusion and Agentic Workflows go GA, and Enterprise now includes Copilot

GitHub posted about ten changelog entries for its Universe conference on 28 October. Three change how teams use and pay for Copilot.

Copilot Fusion: pick an effort level, not a model

Copilot Fusion is now generally available. It merges Project HydraFusion’s multi-model orchestration (our earlier story) with Copilot’s auto model selection. You choose Fusion Standard, High or Max, and Copilot decides which models handle each prompt: one model alone, a cheap draft escalated to a stronger model if a check fails, or a draft that a second model critiques.

GitHub says Fusion Max scored 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, within two points of Claude Code with Opus 5.5 Max, at about half the API cost per task, with about half the tokens and about 40% less time. Those are GitHub’s figures.

Billing: you pay for every model Fusion uses at its standard rate. For a limited time, paid plans get 30% off model costs when using Fusion. It works in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot CLI and JetBrains IDEs. Admins choose which models Fusion may use and can make it the default.

A separate experimental preview lets Fusion route between cloud models and on-device ones, including MAI Code 1.1 Flash on supported Windows machines (background).

Agentic Workflows: Markdown in, Actions YAML out

GitHub Agentic Workflows, an open source GitHub Next project, is generally available on GitHub Free, Team and Enterprise. You describe a task such as issue triage or CI failure analysis in Markdown, and it compiles to standard Actions YAML that runs Copilot or your own coding agent. Agents run read-only by default, in a sandboxed container behind a firewall, and a threat detection job scans proposed changes before they apply. New for GA: self-hosted ARC runners with Docker-in-Docker, gh aw forecast for credit spend, a model router that picks models by task type and difficulty and micro-VM isolation. Using the default Copilot CLI engine needs a Copilot license.

Copilot included in GitHub Enterprise

Enterprises that buy through a GitHub or Microsoft account team can now get Copilot for every GitHub Enterprise user. There are no monthly AI credits per seat: all usage is metered from the first request against the enterprise budget. Code completion and next edit suggestions keep working when the budget runs out; Chat, code review and Copilot in the cloud stop. Enterprise members without a GitHub Enterprise license can get the same access through Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month. Self-serve customers cannot switch yet, and Copilot Business and Enterprise remain on sale.

What to do

If you run Copilot for a team, check two things: which models your policy lets Fusion call, and what your enterprise budget alerts are set to. Under both changes, the bill follows usage, not seats.