The next frontier of agentic development is here, and you are in control.
Today we announced releases that will keep you in the flow with your agents, all on the GitHub platform. ⬇️
You can now use Vercel Plugin with @github Copilot CLI and VS @code:
• 30 platform skills
• 3 specialized agents
• 4 built-in commands
• Real-time code validation
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Repository admins can now archive pull requests 🚀
If spammy or low-quality PRs are piling up, admins can now clean things up without losing that history.
Another step toward giving maintainers more control over contributions in their repositories.
Ghana is exploring how to make open source a sustainable default across government.
GitHub and UNDP brought together public-sector and community leaders to assess the policies, skills, and coordination needed to make it happen.
We've put all of our GitHub for Beginners guides into one roadmap for anyone still filling in that blank.
Bookmark this, or share with a friend who's just getting started 👇
GitHub Copilot for @Atlassian's Jira is now generally available.
With Copilot in Jira, you can:
• stream agent progress to Jira
• provide follow-up instructions directly in the Jira chat panel
• connect your GitHub org and repos to the Jira app faster with fewer steps at the
Stay connected to your Copilot CLI sessions from anywhere.
GitHub Mobile now supports live notifications for remote Copilot CLI sessions. Track progress, know when input is needed, and jump back into session logs to unblock right from your phone.
Get faster, more reliable coding sessions in GitHub Copilot CLI.
We implemented smarter subagent delegation that cut tool failures 23%, search failures 27%, and edit failures 18%, with no quality regression.
With GitHub Issue Fields, you can add structured, typed metadata (like priority, effort, dates, and custom values) to issues across your repos. Get key details at a glance without opening each issue.
GitHub Issue Fields are now generally available to everyone. 🎉
"Code is the language that we use to understand physics." 💻 ⚛️
With billions of particle collisions happening at the Large Hadron Collider, @CERN research fellow Batoul Diab explains why software developers are more crucial to modern science than ever before.
New open source dataset for your next build. 📊
The GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset spans 40M+ repos and 80M+ classification rows, showing where non-English READMEs, issues, and PRs live.
Korean tops issue text; Portuguese tops READMEs (3M+ repos).
The result: roughly 20% lower average review cost, while maintaining the same review quality. ✅
The bigger lesson: for an agent, tool instructions are as load-bearing as your API docs.
Here's how we traced the regression to the instructions ⬇️
