
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.

Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.
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Kayla Cinnamon·September 3, 2026AI & ML 
From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.
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Cassidy Williams·September 2, 2026AI & ML 
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.
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Erik Kristensen, Napalys Klicius·September 2, 2026AI & ML 
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project’s first six months.

Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.
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Christopher Harrison·August 26, 2026AI & ML 
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.
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Mariko Wakabayashi, Zixiao Chen·August 25, 2026AI & ML 
We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here’s how it works.
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Taarik Ashenafi, Keenan Zhou·August 24, 2026Design & UX 
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we’re taking to improve reliability.

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what’s in flight, what’s done, and what’s next.
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Christopher Harrison·August 19, 2026AI & ML 
Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas.
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Ayan Gupta·August 17, 2026AI & ML 
See how four GitHub agent apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub.

The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300.

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.

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

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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Kayla Cinnamon·August 12, 2026AI & ML 
AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.

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.

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.
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Edward Burns·August 10, 2026AI & ML 
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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Jacklyn Carroll·August 6, 2026AI & ML 
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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Ankit Kumar Honey·August 6, 2026Security 
Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code.

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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Julia Muiruri·August 4, 2026AI & ML 
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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Alexander Neubeck, Greg Orzell·July 31, 2026Performance 
Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app.
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Cassidy Williams·July 30, 2026AI & ML 
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.

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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Greg Ose, Zachary Steindler·July 28, 2026Security 
A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
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Burke Holland·July 27, 2026AI & ML 
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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Christopher Harrison·July 27, 2026AI & ML 
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.

Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it.
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Andrea Griffiths·July 22, 2026AI & ML 
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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Catherine Cassell·July 22, 2026Security 
Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks.
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Jacklyn Carroll·July 21, 2026AI & ML 
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

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.

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.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
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Napalys Klicius·July 10, 2026AI & ML 
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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Michael Recachinas·July 9, 2026Security 
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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David Pine, Peli de Halleux·July 8, 2026AI & ML 
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.

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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Michael Recachinas·July 2, 2026Security 
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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Joseph Katsioloudes·July 1, 2026Security 
Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.

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.

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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Madison Ficorilli·June 29, 2026Security 
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.

How GitHub’s culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.

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.
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Shibani Basava, Carlos Castro·June 25, 2026AI & ML 
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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Ashley Willis·June 23, 2026AI & ML 
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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Margaret Tucker·June 23, 2026AI & ML 
Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

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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Matteo Vasirani, Cynthia Joseph·June 19, 2026AI & ML 
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.

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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Cassidy Williams·June 16, 2026AI & ML 
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
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Kayla Cinnamon·June 15, 2026AI & ML 
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.

Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
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Pingping Lin, Yu Hu·June 12, 2026AI & ML