$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.
The cost of saying yes has changed
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.
GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials
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.
Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.
How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
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.
Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows
Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.
GitHub availability report: June 2026
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages
Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.
Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide
New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.
How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero
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.
6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week
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.
How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies
Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.
Highlights from Git 2.55
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.
Inside the Advisory Database and what happens when vulnerability volume breaks records
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.
GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source
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.
Transitioning as a Hubber
How GitHub’s culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.
Evaluating performance and efficiency of the GitHub Copilot agentic harness across models and tasks
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.
I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
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.
GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source
We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent.
From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem
Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.
How we built an internal data analytics agent
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.
How pull request limits are cutting down the noise
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
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.
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset
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.
How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation
Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
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.
