Copilot CLI Weekly: Cross-Session Memory and Remote Plugins Land

The AI That Remembers GitHub shipped two Copilot CLI releases this week (Feb 18-20) with features that fundamentally change how the tool works. v0.0.412 added cross-session memory so the CLI remembers past work across sessions. v0.0.413-0 added remote plugin support so you can load plugins from any GitHub repo or git URL. Both are massive. This isn't incremental polish. These are architectural shifts that make the CLI behave less like a stateless chatbot and more like a persistent development partner. Let me break down what actually changed and why it matters. Cross-Session Memory: Finally, an AI That Tracks Context The headline feature in v0.0.412 (shipped Feb 19) is cross-session memory. The CLI can now answer questions about work from previous sessions—files you edited, PRs you opened, issues you triaged. This is marked experimental, but the implications are huge. Every AI coding assistant I've used suffers from the same problem: sessions are isolated. You work on a feature Monday,