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Text • Kayla Cinnamon

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser

Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app.

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Text • Jakub Oleksy

GitHub availability report: August 2026

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

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Text • GitHub Staff

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

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.

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Text • Kayla Cinnamon

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once

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

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Text • Cassidy Williams

Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

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

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Text • Erik Kristensen

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

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

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Text • Gregg Cochran

OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.

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.

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Text • Christopher Harrison

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage

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

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Text • Mariko Wakabayashi

How to evaluate LLMs before production

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

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Text • Taarik Ashenafi

Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

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

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Text • Vlad Fedorov

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

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

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Text • Christopher Harrison

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work

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.

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Text • Ayan Gupta

How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient

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.

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Text • Sam Zhang

How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps

See how four GitHub Agent Apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub.

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Text • Ariel Kanter

Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!

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

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Text • Gregg Cochran

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

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.

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Text • Jakub Oleksy

GitHub availability report: July 2026

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

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Text • Kayla Cinnamon

Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

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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Text • Andrea Griffiths

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

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

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Text • Natalie Guevara

From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer

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.

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Text • Edward Burns

Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

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

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Text • Jacklyn Carroll

A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app

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

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Text • Ankit Kumar Honey

How we took malware advisories beyond npm

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.

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Text • Bria Ford

How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows

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

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Text • Julia Muiruri

Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack

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

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Text • Alexander Neubeck

Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

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.

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Text • Cassidy Williams

Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app

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

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Text • Bruno Borges

Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast

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.

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Text • Greg Ose

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

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.

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Text • Burke Holland

The harness is all you need (mostly)

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

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