We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works. The post Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. The post The August 17 outage, and the work ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

See how four GitHub Agent Apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub. The post How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300. The post Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. The post What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era appe...

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control. The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub malware advisories no longer stop at npm. Here's how we wired OpenSSF's malicious-packages data into the Advisory Database, and why we built the pipeline paranoid. The post How we took malware advisories beyond npm appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code. The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests. The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app. The post Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project. The post Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadenc...

Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact. The post Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool. The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and security researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code. The post The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it. The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience working with the GitHub team. The post Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub’s bug bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks. The post How to build interactive experiences with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day. The post $100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era. The post The cost of saying yes has changed appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub. The post GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence. The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.