Background agents
Yes Plans
Cloud agent scoped to paid Copilot plans; Free excluded.
coding agent · GitHub
GitHub Copilot
GitHub’s coding-assistant suite across IDEs, terminal, GitHub.com, and cloud agents that can plan changes and propose pull requests.
Research state11
classified capabilities
Capability ledger
What the evidence supports.
Open a classified state for its direct answer and source record.
| Capability | State | Scope | Evidence | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP client | Supported | Free, Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| Live web search | Supported with conditions | Free, Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| Browser control | Supported with conditions | The documented cloud-agent browser is scoped to localhost. | 1 primary | |
| Terminal access | Supported | Product-wide | 1 primary | |
| Code execution | Supported | Product-wide | 2 primary | |
| File upload | Supported | Free, Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| PDF analysis | Supported | Free, Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| Image input | Supported | Free, Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| Background agents | Selected plans | Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Enterprise | 2 primary | |
| Third-party connectors | Supported with conditions | Product-wide | 1 primary | |
| IDE integration | Supported | Product-wide | 1 primary | |
| Spreadsheet analysis | Unknown or unverified | Product-wide | Not verified | |
| Image generation | Unknown or unverified | Product-wide | Not verified | |
| Persistent memory | Unknown or unverified | Product-wide | Not verified | |
| Desktop application | Unknown or unverified | Product-wide | Not verified |
Recorded changes
State history.
Live web search
Unknown Conditional
Bing web search documented across individual and business/enterprise Copilot Chat with policy enablement.
Image input
Unknown Yes
Copilot vision GA documents image attach on all plans.
File upload
Unknown Yes
Chat file attach documented for all Copilot plans.
PDF analysis
Unknown Yes
PDF attach listed with Copilot vision GA and Chat docs.
Evidence inventory
Primary sources used.
01About Model Context Protocol (MCP)GitHub · accessed 2026-09-0802GitHub Copilot · Plans & pricingGitHub · accessed 2026-09-0803Managing GitHub Copilot policies as an individual subscriberGitHub · accessed 2026-09-0804Web search in GitHub Copilot Chat now available for Copilot IndividualGitHub · accessed 2026-09-0805Custom agents configurationGitHub · accessed 2026-08-0106About GitHub Copilot CLIGitHub · accessed 2026-08-0107What is GitHub Copilot?GitHub · accessed 2026-07-2708Asking GitHub Copilot questions in GitHubGitHub · accessed 2026-09-0809Copilot vision is generally availableGitHub · accessed 2026-09-0810Managing access to GitHub Copilot cloud agentGitHub · accessed 2026-09-08