GitHub availability report: May 2026
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning.
Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers
Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence.
From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions
Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here.
The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.
GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row
We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.
Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made
Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.
Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
Investigation update: GitHub Enterprise Server signing key rotation
GitHub Enterprise Server customers need to take immediate action.
Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere
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.
Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program
We’re updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings.
GitHub availability report: April 2026
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)
Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once.
GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan
Starting June 1, our lineup of individual plans will update based on your feedback.
Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI
Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
Why age assurance laws matter for developers
Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations
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.
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows
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.
Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them.
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.
Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic
How to build the “Trust Layer” for GitHub Copilot cloud agent without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis.
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode
Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
Highlights from Git 2.54
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.
Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you’ll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI
Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.
Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency
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.
Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
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.
How exposed is your code? Find out in minutes—for free
The new Code Security Risk Assessment gives you a one-click view of vulnerabilities across your organization, at no cost.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages
Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with the GitHub Copilot CLI, a step-by-step tutorial.
GitHub availability report: March 2026
In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage
Get inspired by five of the most memorable, magical, and quirky Universe sessions to date.
GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion
Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.
The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub
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.
Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI
/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.
Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here’s what I learned about working better with coding agents.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security
Learn how to secure your projects and keep them safe with GitHub Advanced Security.
What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap
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.
A year of open source vulnerability trends: CVEs, advisories, and malware
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.
Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
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.
Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK
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.
GitHub expands application security coverage with AI‑powered detections
CodeQL and AI‑powered detections work together in GitHub Code Security to identify vulnerabilities across more languages and frameworks.
Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era
As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically… without burning out.
How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository
An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative.
