Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
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What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.
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GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
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Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset
A new repository-level dataset, published on GitHub under CC0-1.0, helps researchers and developers discover multilingual developer content across READMEs, issues, and pull requests.
Latest
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How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation
Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
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GitHub availability report: May 2026
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale
Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning.
Popular
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What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
Engineering
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From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
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How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
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The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
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Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
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How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server
Here’s how we made the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.
Spotlight
Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
News & insights
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GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
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GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
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Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here.
The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
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Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere
Kick off work in VS Code or the CLI, finish it from your phone. Remote control for GitHub Copilot sessions is now generally available on github.com and GitHub Mobile.
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GitHub availability report: April 2026
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan
Starting June 1, our lineup of individual plans will update based on your feedback.
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GitHub Universe 2026
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