2026

In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Think of Continuous AI as background agents that operate in your repository for tasks that require reasoning.

Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription. Here’s what you need to know and how to get started today.

What languages are growing fastest, and why? What about the projects that people are interested in the most? Where are new developers cutting their teeth? Let’s take a look at Octoverse data to find out.

A senior engineer’s guide to architecting and extending Copilot’s real-world applications.

Learn how GitHub built an accessible, multi-terminal-safe ASCII animation for the Copilot CLI using custom tooling, ANSI color roles, and advanced terminal engineering.

Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with data from the Innovation Graph through Q3 2025.

Read GitHub’s position on the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy and learn how to participate.

Explore the GitHub Copilot CLI and try interacting with Copilot directly from your terminal.

Now in technical preview, the GitHub Copilot SDK can plan, invoke tools, edit files, and run commands as a programmable layer you can use in any application.

Run tests, fix code, and get support—right in your workflow. Stay focused and let Copilot handle the busywork.

Learn how we are using the newly released GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent to triage categories of vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions and JavaScript projects.

Learn how I managed context to keep Copilot focused, used the Plan agent to sharpen vague requirements, and required Test Driven Development practices to catch bugs before users.

Copilot’s cross-agent memory system lets agents learn and improve across your development workflow, starting with coding agent, CLI, and code review.