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Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics

GitHub reports that some Copilot usage metrics have shown agent activity or agent lines of code falling even while overall Copilot usage kept growing. The company identified the cause and is rolling out a fix, advising users to update their IDE to restore accurate agent activity reporting in the metrics.

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