In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

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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.

The post Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.

The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.

The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.

The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.

The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.

The post How to evaluate LLMs before production appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works.

The post Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

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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.

The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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 post How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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

The post Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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

The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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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AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.

The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more.

The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow.

The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post How we took malware advisories beyond npm appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code.

The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests.

The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app.

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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.

The post Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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.

The post Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.

The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow.

The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started appeared first on The GitHub Blog.