The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)
We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
Let’s talk about GitHub Actions
A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.
GitHub Availability Report: November 2025
In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents
MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here’s how that will affect developers.
Speed is nothing without control: How to keep quality high in the AI era
AI can help you build faster than ever, but it can also produce bugs, issues, and problems. Use these strategies to keep your speed without losing control of your code.
The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era
Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development—shifting from code producers to strategic orchestrators—through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.
How to use GitHub Copilot Spaces to debug issues faster
Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to debug your issues using GitHub Copilot Spaces and Copilot coding agent.
Your stack, your rules: Introducing custom agents in GitHub Copilot for observability, IaC, and security
Use partner-built Copilot agents to debug, secure, and automate engineering workflows across your terminal, editor, and github.com.
“The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house
Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.
How to orchestrate agents using mission control
Run multiple Copilot agents from one place. Learn prompt techniques, how to spot drift early, and how to review agent work efficiently.
The ultimate gift guide for the developer in your life
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
Why developers still flock to Python: Guido van Rossum on readability, AI, and the future of programming
Discover how Python changed developer culture—and see why it keeps evolving.
How GitHub’s agentic security principles make our AI agents as secure as possible
Learn more about the agentic security principles that we use to build secure AI products—and how you can apply them to your own agents.
Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
Evolving GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions through custom model training
GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions just got faster, smarter, and more precise thanks to new data pipelines, reinforcement learning, and continuous model updates built for in-editor workflows.
How we’re making GitHub Copilot smarter with fewer tools
We’re using embedding-guided tool routing, adaptive clustering, and a streamlined 13-tool core to deliver faster experience in VS Code.
How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories
Learn how to write effective agents.md files for GitHub Copilot with practical tips, real examples, and templates from analyzing 2,500+ repositories.
Level up design-to-code collaboration with GitHub’s open source Annotation Toolkit
Prevent accessibility issues before they reach production. The Annotation Toolkit brings clarity, compliance, and collaboration directly into your Figma workflow.
Highlights from Git 2.52
The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files
Discover practical tips, examples, and best practices for writing effective instructions files. Whether you’re new or experienced, you’ll find something to level up your code reviews.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2025
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
TypeScript, Python, and the AI feedback loop changing software development
An interview with the leader of GitHub Next, Idan Gazit, on TypeScript, Python, and what comes next.
How Copilot helps build the GitHub platform
A breakdown of how Copilot coding agent has contributed to a better, more powerful GitHub.
What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025
Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. Here’s what the 2025 Octoverse data says about how devs really work now.
GitHub Copilot CLI 101: How to use GitHub Copilot from the command line
Curious about using GitHub Copilot in your terminal? Here’s our guide to GitHub Copilot CLI, including a starter kit with the best prompts for a wide range of use cases.
TypeScript’s rise in the AI era: Insights from Lead Architect, Anders Hejlsberg
TypeScript just became the most-used language on GitHub. Here’s why, according to its creator.
GitHub Copilot tutorial: How to build, test, review, and ship code faster (with real prompts)
How GitHub Copilot works today—including mission control—and how to get the most out of it. Here’s what you need to know.
GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 13th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme WAVES—literal, digital, or emotional. 👋🏻 🌊 📡
Measuring what matters: How offline evaluation of GitHub MCP Server works
Take a look inside our automated pipeline for rapid, rigorous evaluation for the GitHub MCP Server.
Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.
Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
Announcing the 2025 GitHub Partner Award winners 🎉
GitHub celebrates its 2025 Partner Award winners, honoring global, regional, and technology partners for driving innovation, collaboration, and impact across the developer ecosystem.
How to find, install, and manage MCP servers with the GitHub MCP Registry
Learn how to bring structure and security to your AI ecosystem with the GitHub MCP Registry, the single source of truth for managing and governing MCP servers.
The road to better completions: Building a faster, smarter GitHub Copilot with a new custom model
Find out about the latest custom models powering the completions experience in GitHub Copilot.
From karaoke terminals to AI résumés: The winners of GitHub’s For the Love of Code challenge
This summer, we invited devs to participate in our hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. Here are the winners of For the Love of Code!
Top security researcher shares their bug bounty process
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to put the spotlight on a talented security researcher—André Storfjord Kristiansen!
How to update community health files with AI
Have you ever thought about using AI to update community health files for your repositories? This blog shares actionable next steps for doing just that, including a starter kit with a checklist and tutorials on how to create three useful files.
Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell
Log4Shell proved that open source security isn’t guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem. It’s about supporting, enabling, and empowering the people behind the projects that build our digital infrastructure.
Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects
GitHub Copilot and VS Code teams, along with the Microsoft Open Source Program Office (OSPO), sponsored these nine open source MCP projects that provide new frameworks, tools, and assistants to unlock AI-native workflows, agentic tooling, and innovation.
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert
If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.
Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now
Discover how GitHub Copilot has evolved from a high-powered autocomplete tool to a powerful, multi-model agentic assistant.
How GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems
GitHub Copilot and AI agents are making legacy COBOL systems accessible to modern developers.
GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started
Discover how to use GitHub Copilot directly in the terminal. From cloning a repository to opening a pull request, here’s how to streamline your workflow with Copilot CLI.
How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering
See how this three-part framework will turn AI into a repeatable and reliable engineering practice.
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings.
GitHub Availability Report: September 2025
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Completing urgent fixes anywhere with GitHub Copilot coding agent and mobile
Unlock the full potential of the GitHub platform. See how Copilot coding agent and GitHub Mobile combine to help you tackle development tasks and urgent fixes, no matter where you are.
How GitHub Copilot enabled accessibility governance process improvements in record time
See how we turned weekly accessibility signals into an automated, accountable remediation workflow—powered by GitHub Copilot and cross‑functional collaboration.
How a top bug bounty researcher got their start in security
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher — @xiridium!
The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead.
AI is changing how software gets built. Explore the skills you need to keep up and stand out.
Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨
CodeQL zero to hero part 5: Debugging queries
Learn to debug and fix your CodeQL queries.
How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach
Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.
Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher spotlights and enhanced incentives
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GitHub’s Bug Bounty team is excited to offer some additional incentives to security researchers!
Building beyond the browser: Keeley Hammond on Electron, open source, and the future of maintainership
Learn what it really takes to sustain one of the web’s most widely used frameworks on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.
GitHub Copilot gets smarter at finding your code: Inside our new embedding model
Learn about a new Copilot embedding model that makes code search in VS Code faster, lighter on memory, and far more accurate.
Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
A step-by-step guide to modernizing Java projects with GitHub Copilot agent mode
Learn how to use GitHub Copilot agent mode to modernize legacy Java projects with guided upgrades, automated fixes, and cloud-ready migrations.
Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain
Addressing a surge in package registry attacks, GitHub is strengthening npm’s security with stricter authentication, granular tokens, and enhanced trusted publishing to restore trust in the open source ecosystem.
Gartner positions GitHub as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants for the second year in a row
Our commitment is to empower every developer and stay true to our north star by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.