Onboarding your AI peer programmer: Setting up GitHub Copilot coding agent for success
Learn how to configure Copilot coding agent’s environment, optimize project structure, use custom instructions, and extend its capabilities with MCP servers.
Learn how to configure Copilot coding agent’s environment, optimize project structure, use custom instructions, and extend its capabilities with MCP servers.
As of today, npm trusted publishing with OpenID Connect (OIDC) is now generally available. This feature enables you to securely publish npm packages directly from CI/CD workflows using OpenID Connect…
You can delegate tasks to GitHub Copilot coding agent to work on in the background. While working on a task, Copilot has access to its own development environment, powered by…
Upgrade from a local MCP Docker image to GitHub’s hosted server and automate pull requests, continuous integration, and security triage in minutes — no tokens required.
On July 28, 2025 21:41 UTC, GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) was identified as being in a degraded state with migrations stalled. An incident was declared to restore the service to…
Secret scanning is adding validity check support for eight additional token types across five providers. In addition to previously announced token types, you will now see validity checks for the…
Introducing the brand new GitHub Podcast: A show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories, and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.
Build a custom Azure DevOps extension that eliminates the complexity of JWT generation and token management, enabling powerful automation and enhanced security controls.
With GitHub Copilot coding agent, you can delegate tasks to Copilot that it will work on in the background while you focus on something else. When delegating a task to…
With GitHub Copilot coding agent, you can hand off tasks for it to work on in the background, freeing you up to concentrate on other things. You can add custom…
Stuck between idea and implementation? Spending weeks on mock ups or docs that never ship? GitHub Spark takes you from idea to deployed app in minutes. Build and ship full-stack…
How using GitHub’s free inference API can make your AI-powered open source software more accessible.
Explore how I use agentic tools like GitHub Copilot agent mode and the Playwright MCP server to accelerate troubleshooting and debugging of UI issues, while revisiting the importance of clear requirements.
Secret scanning is adding validity check support for 45 additional token types across over 30 providers. What’s changing? In addition to previously announced token types, you will now see validity…
You can now choose a Not set option for GitHub Code Security features in your organization’s security configurations. Previously, you could only enable or disable features like code scanning and…
Organization administrators can now centrally configure private registries for Dependabot at the organization level, streamlining dependency management across all repositories. What’s new Previously, organizations had to individually configure private registry…
We’re streamlining and enhancing Copilot code review! Upcoming features include moving from coding guidelines to copilot-instructions.md, making the Request pull request review from Copilot checkbox easier to find, and introducing…
Stay in flow with the latest updates to GitHub Issues and Projects. You can now duplicate issues across repositories and start new issues from anywhere in the GitHub UI. These…
Copilot on github.com now supports improvements to the experiences you already know and love. Creating issues with Copilot supports issue forms When creating issues with Copilot, it can now select…
Strengthen your repositories against actions workflow injections — one of the most common vulnerabilities.
That idea you’ve been sitting on? The domain you bought at 2AM? A silly or serious side project? This summer, we invite you to build it — for the joy, for the vibes, For the Love of Code 🧡
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