The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300.
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See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.
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In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence.
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AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.
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Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next.
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Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.
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Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow.
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GitHub malware advisories no longer stop at npm. Here's how we wired OpenSSF's malicious-packages data into the Advisory Database, and why we built the pipeline paranoid.
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Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code.
The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests.
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How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.
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Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app.
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Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project.
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Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact.
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A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
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New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow.
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A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and security researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code.
The post The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it.
The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience working with the GitHub team.
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Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks.
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Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.
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The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
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New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub.
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How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed.
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Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.
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In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.
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New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.
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GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months.
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These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.
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Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.
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The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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The GitHub Advisory Database is processing more vulnerability reports than ever before. Here's what's driving the surge, how we're responding, and how the community can help.
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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.
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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.
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We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent.
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Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.
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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.
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Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
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How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
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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.
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GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
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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.
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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.
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Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning.
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Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence.
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Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
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Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
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GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
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At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
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The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
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Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.
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We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.
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Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.
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Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
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If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels.
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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.
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Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
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We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings.
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In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
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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.
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Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon.
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Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
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Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis.
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What maintainers are telling us, what we've shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
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OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
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Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
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Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
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How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
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Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
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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.
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See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
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Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you'll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
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Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
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Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.
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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.
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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.
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The new Code Security Risk Assessment gives you a one-click view of vulnerabilities across your organization, at no cost.
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Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.
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GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with the GitHub Copilot CLI, a step-by-step tutorial.
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In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Get inspired by five of the most memorable, magical, and quirky Universe sessions to date.
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Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.
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The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
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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.
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/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.
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I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.
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