GitHub Availability Report: August 2025
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
You can now use the REST API to understand and manage information about your projects, and take advantage of sub-issue improvements that make it even easier to break down your…
Delegate it a task, and coding agent can independently write, run, and test code. Here’s how you can make the most of it.
You can now enable automatic Copilot code review with its own standalone repository rule. It’s generally available for Copilot users today ✨. Previously, triggering an automatic Copilot code review on…
Connect commits to artifacts without switching tools.
Reproduce and debug web app issues with ease using the Playwright MCP server and GitHub Copilot.
The remote GitHub MCP Server is now generally available. We’ve introduced OAuth-based authentication, expanded tooling, and improved security guardrails. Improvements & updates 🔐 Production authentication The GitHub MCP Server now…
Copilot code review is becoming even more customizable! You can now use your existing path-scoped instruction files to provide targeted guidance for specific parts of your repository. Plus we have…
This guide offers five essential tips for writing effective GitHub Copilot custom instructions, covering project overview, tech stack, coding guidelines, structure, and resources, to help developers get better code suggestions.
Learn how GitHub Copilot’s evolving models and infrastructure center developer choice and power agentic workflows.
WebP image support is now available across github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. Previously, uploading WebP images resulted in broken previews or forced users to download files to…
Learn how GitHub Models helps open source maintainers automate repetitive tasks like issue triage, duplicate detection, and contributor onboarding — saving hours each week.
Raycast is a powerful free launcher for macOS. It can launch apps, search files, control your system, and leverage community-built extensions. Now, it can also interact with AI agents. With…
Overview We’re testing improvements to the content and layout of the home dashboard, designed to enable users to understand the current status of their most important work and navigate to…
Learn how the Secret Protection engineering team collaborated with GitHub Copilot coding agent to expand validity check coverage.
Explore how to use GitHub Copilot on github.com to automate tasks, assign agents, prototype ideas, and streamline your entire workflow — all without an IDE.
GitHub Copilot coding agent, our autonomous developer agent currently in public preview, is now also available in GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. You can delegate tasks to Copilot by…
@cole-hartman and @dorisbwang joined the GitHub Apps team for the summer with a focus on improving the developer experience around fine-grained PAT creation. They worked with our design and product…
When a chat conversation is poisoned by indirect prompt injection, it can result in the exposure of GitHub tokens, confidential files, or even the execution of arbitrary code without the user’s explicit consent. In this blog post, we’ll explain which VS Code features may reduce these risks.
Learn Model Context Protocol by building a turn-based game server that shows how to extend GitHub Copilot with custom tools, resources, and prompts.
The deprecation date for Copilot knowledge bases has been updated from September 12th to November 1st, 2025. Beginning November 1, 2025, GitHub Copilot knowledge bases will be retired and fully…
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