# GitHub — New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains

- Company: GitHub (github.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-23T00:34:18+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-new-features-and-improvements-in-copilot-for-jetbrains
- Record: https://forck.live/items/13202-new-features-and-improvements-in-copilot-for-jetbrains
- Subject: Copilot

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 adds AI-assisted tool approvals in public preview, allowing low-risk tool calls to receive automatic approval while higher-risk actions require user confirmation. The update also introduces message re-editing in agent sessions, support for organization and enterprise skills and custom instructions, plan mode for the Codex agent, persistent per-tool controls for MCP servers, and a side-by-side chat panel switcher.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-new-features-and-improvements-in-copilot-for-jetbrains:

> Low-risk tool calls receive automatic approval, while higher-risk actions continue to prompt you for a decision. This gives you fewer approval interruptions for low-risk actions while keeping higher-risk decisions in your hands.

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