Copilot CLI Weekly: PR Workflows, Extensions, and Multi-Turn Background Agents

The 1.0 Era Accelerates One week after the focus shifted to safety and hardening , GitHub dropped v1.0.5 yesterday with a feature set that feels more like a major milestone than a point release. This update ships native PR workflows, CLI extension management, multi-turn background agents, and over a dozen quality-of-life fixes that smooth out rough edges across the entire platform. The velocity here is striking. We're one month into general availability and the team is shipping production-grade features weekly while simultaneously tightening security (blocking network paths to prevent credential leakage) and fixing platform-specific bugs (Windows diff rendering, Kitty terminal escape sequences). This is what sustained investment in developer tooling looks like. Native Pull Request Workflows with /pr The marquee feature in v1.0.5 is the new /pr command for creating and managing pull requests directly from the CLI. The release notes promise it can "automatically fix CI failures, address