GitHub connected Copilot cloud sessions across the web, mobile, CLI, VS Code, Slack and Teams

On October 28, 2026, GitHub announced a connected Copilot cloud experience in which a task started on one surface continued as the same session on the others, running by default in cloud sandboxes that draw on a shared, dollar-based Actions compute pool.

Archive entry: this covers an event from October 28, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.

On October 28, 2026, GitHub announced a connected Copilot cloud experience. A Copilot cloud task could start on github.com, GitHub Mobile, Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, VS Code, Slack or Microsoft Teams and continue on any of them as the same session. The details are in the GitHub changelog entry on the connected Copilot cloud experience.

What changed

By default every session ran in a secure cloud sandbox on GitHub-managed infrastructure that started fast and resumed where it left off.
Sandboxes had no one-hour limit on total running session time, and snapshots let a session resume later from any surface.
The included Actions compute entitlement became one shared, dollar-based pool instead of a fixed number of standard runner minutes, covering standard GitHub-hosted runners and cloud sandboxes.
On GitHub Mobile, tasks could be described by voice or with an attached image or file.
Local sessions could be steered from a phone by registering the device through GitHub Mission Control.

What it meant for people building with AI

Agent sessions followed developers between devices, and the compute they used came from the same budget as CI. A task begun in Slack or Teams, or described by voice on a phone, could be picked up in the CLI or VS Code without starting over.

Availability and billing

The connected cloud experience and cloud sandboxes were generally available on paid Copilot plans. Billing for cloud sandbox usage was to begin in November 2026 and to draw from the included Actions entitlement.

Sources

Work from anywhere with a new, connected Copilot cloud experience (GitHub, October 28, 2026, official)

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