In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: May 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning. The post Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence. The post Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes. The post From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions. The post GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026. The post GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work. The post GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen. The post Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development. The post GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row appeared first on Th...

Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets. The post Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility. The post Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels. The post Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings. The post Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program appeared first on The GitHu...

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon. The post Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers. The post Why age assurance laws matter for developers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to reveal the “digital complexity” of nations appe...

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. The post Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis. The post Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

What maintainers are telling us, what we've shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source. The post Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch. The post Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes. The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode appeared first on The GitHub Blog.