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GitHub Copilot App: Archive Finished Sessions, Bulk Pin and Unpin, and More Saved Views

GitHub CopilotView original changelog

The GitHub Copilot app now lets users archive pinned sessions whose pull requests have been merged or closed, and pin or unpin several sessions at once. The My Work view also supports more than ten saved views.

Key Takeaways

  • Pinned sessions can now be archived once their pull requests are merged or closed.
  • Bulk pin and unpin replaces toggling sessions one at a time.
  • The My Work view now supports more than ten saved views.
  • The changes target users running many parallel agent sessions in the Copilot app.
  • They shipped in the November 2 weekly release, with file drop and context-limit compaction.
  • These are session-management changes, not new agent capabilities.

Keeping the session list under control

The GitHub Copilot app keeps agent sessions in a list that users can pin to. In the November 2 weekly release, GitHub added three changes aimed at managing that list once work piles up.

Archive pinned sessions that are done

Pinned sessions whose pull requests have been merged or closed can now be archived. The changelog states the capability but does not say whether archived sessions remain retrievable afterwards.

Pin and unpin in bulk

Users can now pin or unpin several sessions in one action, rather than toggling each session separately.

More saved views in My Work

The My Work view now supports more than ten saved views, raising a limit that previously capped how many filtered lists a user could keep.

Why it matters

None of these changes add new agent capabilities. They target users who run many parallel sessions in the Copilot app, where a pinned list and a set of saved views accumulate as work finishes. They shipped alongside other app changes in the same weekly release, including dropping files onto New to start a session and compacting a conversation when it reaches its context limit.