Image: GitHub / github.blog GitHub Copilot's Customize Tab Is Now Generally Available
The new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app centralizes MCP server discovery, plugins, skills, and canvases in one place, with a browsable featured section and category filters.
GitHub shipped the Customize tab in the Copilot app to general availability on August 25. The tab consolidates every way to extend Copilot into a single location: MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases are all reachable from one interface instead of being scattered across different settings menus.
What the tab contains
The entry point is a Featured section that GitHub curates with a handful of options from each category. You don’t have to hunt through the full list if you want to try something common. From there, the tab has dedicated sections for each type of extension.
MCP server discovery gets the most attention here. You can browse trending servers and filter by category, which addresses a real friction point. Before this, adding an MCP server to Copilot meant knowing the server’s name or URL ahead of time. The browse-by-category view lets you find servers for your specific toolchain without prior knowledge.
The other categories, plugins, skills, and canvases, follow the same pattern. Each has its own section where you can see what’s available and add things to your Copilot setup.
Who it’s for
The tab is available to all paid Copilot users through the GitHub Copilot app. You access it by opening the app and clicking the Customize tab in the navigation.
The broader target is teams that want to wire Copilot into tools they already use, such as project management systems, internal APIs, or CI platforms, without needing to configure everything by hand. One of the featured canvases GitHub highlighted at launch lets you delegate Azure DevOps backlog triage to Copilot directly.
Context
The Customize tab arrives alongside the rest of GitHub’s push to make Copilot more composable. The Copilot SDK went generally available earlier this summer, and MCP support has been expanding across Copilot surfaces throughout the year. The Customize tab is the user-facing piece that ties those capabilities together in the app experience.
The announcement is on the GitHub Changelog.