GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa's most ambitious digital reform efforts.
The post GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Explore how the GitHub Copilot agentic harness delivers strong results across multiple benchmarks and leading token efficiency, while maintaining flexibility to choose among more than 20 models.
The post Evaluating performance and efficiency of the GitHub Copilot agentic harness across models and tasks appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.
The post I automated my job (and it made me a better leader) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent.
The post GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.
The post From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here's what we learned as we built it.
The post How we built an internal data analytics agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
The post How pull request limits are cutting down the noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
The post Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn't until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.
The post What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A new repository-level dataset, published on GitHub under CC0-1.0, helps researchers and developers discover multilingual developer content across READMEs, issues, and pull requests.
The post Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
The post How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The post GitHub availability report: May 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning.
The post Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence.
The post Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
The post From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
The post GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
The post GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
The post Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.
The post GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.
The post Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
The post Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels.
The post Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Kick off work in VS Code or the CLI, finish it from your phone. Remote control for GitHub Copilot sessions is now generally available on github.com and GitHub Mobile.
The post Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings.
The post Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once.
The post Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Starting June 1, our lineup of individual plans will update based on your feedback.
The post GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon.
The post Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
The post Why age assurance laws matter for developers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along with our Q4 2025 data release.
The post How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can quietly accumulate large API bills. Here's how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them.
The post Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A practical guide to reviewing agent-generated pull requests: what to look for, where issues hide, and how to catch technical debt before it ships.
The post Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis.
The post Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
What maintainers are telling us, what we've shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
The post Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
The post Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
The post Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
The post An update on GitHub availability appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
The post GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
The post Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
The post Highlights from Git 2.54 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
The post Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you'll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
The post Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
The post How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.
The post Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead.
The post Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn to find and exploit real-world agentic AI vulnerabilities through five progressive challenges in this free, open source game that over 10,000 developers have already used to sharpen their security skills.
The post Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The new Code Security Risk Assessment gives you a one-click view of vulnerabilities across your organization, at no cost.
The post How exposed is your code? Find out in minutes—for free appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with the GitHub Copilot CLI, a step-by-step tutorial.
The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The post GitHub availability report: March 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Get inspired by five of the most memorable, magical, and quirky Universe sessions to date.
The post GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.
The post GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
The post The uphill climb of making diff lines performant appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Recent attacks on open source focus on exfiltrating secrets; here are the prevention steps you can take today, plus a look at the security capabilities GitHub is working on.
The post Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
/fleet lets Copilot CLI dispatch multiple agents in parallel. Learn how to write prompts that split work across files, declare dependencies, and avoid common pitfalls.
The post Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.
The post Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how to secure your projects and keep them safe with GitHub Advanced Security.
The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A look at GitHub Actions’ 2026 roadmap, outlining how secure defaults, policy controls, and CI/CD observability harden the software supply chain end to end.
The post What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Reviewed advisories hit a four-year low, malware advisories surged, and CNA publishing grew—here’s what changed and what it means for your triage and response.
The post A year of open source vulnerability trends: CVEs, advisories, and malware appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
The post Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Learn how to integrate the Copilot SDK into a React Native app to generate AI-powered issue summaries, with production patterns for graceful degradation and caching.
The post Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
CodeQL and AI‑powered detections work together in GitHub Code Security to identify vulnerabilities across more languages and frameworks.
The post GitHub expands application security coverage with AI‑powered detections appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically... without burning out.
The post Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative.
The post How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
See how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains.
The post Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
