GitHub Copilot tutorial: How to build, test, review, and ship code faster (with real prompts)
How GitHub Copilot works today—including mission control—and how to get the most out of it. Here’s what you need to know.
How GitHub Copilot works today—including mission control—and how to get the most out of it. Here’s what you need to know.
Take a look inside our automated pipeline for rapid, rigorous evaluation for the GitHub MCP Server.
The GitHub MCP Server now comes with server instructions that unlock new and better ways in which it can be used by models. We’ve also continued to decrease the footprint…
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
We’ve redesigned how you manage your Copilot coding agent tasks on github.com. Instead of jumping between pages to track progress, monitor changes, and manage tasks, everything you need now lives…
GitHub Code Quality is now available in public preview! It turns every pull request into an opportunity to improve. With in-context findings, one-click Copilot fixes, and reliability and maintainability scores,…
Copilot code review (CCR) now blends LLM detections and tool calling with deterministic tools like ESLint and CodeQL, delivering smarter reviews and a seamless handoff to the Copilot coding agent…
The GitHub app for Slack now works with GitHub Copilot coding agent, letting you generate pull requests directly from your Slack conversations. Editor’s note (October 28, 2025): Removed the reference…
You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot coding agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents…
You can now configure Copilot coding agent’s development environment to run in your own infrastructure using self-hosted GitHub Actions runners managed by Actions Runner Controller (ARC). With this setup, you…
We made improvements to the content and layout of the home dashboard, designed to enable users to see, understand, and take action on their most important work in a single…
Copilot coding agent is our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. Delegate a task to Copilot and it opens a draft pull request, makes changes in the background, and then requests a…
Since our initial public preview release, we’ve shipped daily improvements to GitHub Copilot CLI. In addition to listening to feedback from developers like you in our public repository, we’ve been…
GitHub Copilot coding agent is GitHub’s asynchronous, autonomous developer agent that helps your teams move faster by allowing you to delegate a wide range of tasks to it, including implementing…
You can now assign GitHub code scanning alerts directly to Copilot to assist with automated remediation. This extends Copilot coding agent capabilities to security vulnerabilities, enabling faster resolution of common…
Learn how to bring structure and security to your AI ecosystem with the GitHub MCP Registry, the single source of truth for managing and governing MCP servers.
This summer, we invited devs to participate in our hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. Here are the winners of For the Love of Code!
Have you ever thought about using AI to update community health files for your repositories? This blog shares actionable next steps for doing just that, including a starter kit with a checklist and tutorials on how to create three useful files.
Copilot coding agent is our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. Delegate a task to Copilot and it opens a draft pull request, makes changes in the background, and then requests a…
Discover how GitHub Copilot has evolved from a high-powered autocomplete tool to a powerful, multi-model agentic assistant.
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