Approving Github Copilot Actions

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Since Jun 22, 2026.

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I am not technical and use Github Copilot to help query our team's database. When it runs actions and asks me to "Allow" - I have no idea what I am allowing because the queries can become very complicated. So I end up allowing all because otherwise I can't get any results. There needs to be a way to show in english what the agent needs my permission for.

Issue Details
Item Value
Issue Category Feature Request
Target Visual Studio Code
VS Code Version Code 1.125.1 (fcf604774b9f2674b473065736ee75077e256353, 2026-06-19T08:39:34Z)
OS Version Windows_NT arm64 10.0.26200
System Info
Item Value
VS Code Version Code 1.125.1 (fcf604774b9f2674b473065736ee75077e256353, 2026-06-19T08:39:34Z)
OS Version Windows_NT arm64 10.0.26200
CPUs Snapdragon(R) X 12-core X1E80100 @ 3.40 GHz (12 x 2976)
GPU Status 2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x4d4f4351, DEVICE=0x36334330 [Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU], DRIVER_VENDOR=Qualcomm, DRIVER_VERSION=31.0.137.0 ACTIVE
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8521
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)
Memory (System) 31.57GB (8.58GB free)
Process Argv --crash-reporter-id 2e498623-9ad1-43ed-9c0d-fb15ea8a1576
Screen Reader no
VM 0%
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.125.1 Chrome/148.0.7778.97 Electron/42.2.0 Safari/537.36
Installation pure true
Extensions (6)
Name Identifier Author Version
Rainbow CSV mechatroner.rainbow-csv mechatroner 3.24.1
GitHub Copilot for Azure ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-github-copilot ms-azuretools 1.0.209
Azure MCP Server ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server ms-azuretools 2.0.44
Azure Resources ms-azuretools.vscode-azureresourcegroups ms-azuretools 0.12.7
PowerShell ms-vscode.powershell ms-vscode 2025.4.0
Chat Customizations Evaluations ms-vscode.vscode-chat-customizations-evaluations ms-vscode 1.0.7

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