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GitHub Explains How Beginners Can Teach Copilot Their Codebase: 4 Mechanisms
GitHub has published a beginner's guide to the Copilot app: instructions, skills, custom agents and MCP servers such as Playwright help the agent understand a specific repository.
GitHub Blog: Hackathons Remain the Best Entry Point into Development in the AI Era
GitHub Blog argues that barriers to building software have collapsed, and hackathons are still a fast way to learn to build products, now alongside AI tools.
GitHub Copilot SDK for Java: Annotations and Virtual Threads for Enterprise Development
GitHub has released a Copilot SDK for Java that lets enterprise developers embed Copilot in applications via native annotations and virtual threads, with no Python or TypeScript required.
GitHub Copilot vs. Direct API Access: What You Actually Pay For
GitHub Copilot now bills models at their official API list prices. The company explains what subscribers pay for beyond the tokens: workflow, policies and the agent harness.
GitHub Copilot Learned to Connect a Domain to GitHub Pages Without Manual DNS Setup
GitHub explained how Copilot enables developers in 14 minutes to go from an empty repository to a website on their own domain with HTTPS, without manual DNS record editing.
GitHub explained how it controls open source license compliance at scale
GitHub described how its Open Source Program Office uses a new product to manage open source dependencies and monitor license compliance.
GitHub Agentic Workflows: Automate Documentation After Commit
The Aspire team uses GitHub agents to transform merged changes into a pull request with documentation. The gap between release and documentation is closed.
GitHub optimized Copilot: how Unix tools made reviews cheaper
GitHub redesigned the Copilot code review architecture, integrating Unix-style tools for code analysis. The new approach reduced compute costs and improved review quality.
GitHub Copilot harness demonstrated leading token efficiency and support for 20+ models
GitHub conducted large-scale testing of the Copilot agent framework: the system leads in token efficiency across several benchmarks and supports a choice of more than 20 AI models.
GitHub Joins Coalition Against AI Transparency Law's Conflict With Open Source
GitHub has joined a coalition pushing for amendments to California's AI transparency law: as currently written, it conflicts with open-source licenses.
From one-time commands to processes: GitHub added agents to Copilot CLI
GitHub has expanded Copilot CLI with custom agents — they allow artificial intelligence to understand your technology stack, code conventions, and team workflows.
GitHub Copilot CLI Now Uses Language Server Protocol for Code Understanding
GitHub has embedded Language Server Protocol into Copilot CLI, enabling the tool to analyze code with genuine code intelligence—the way IDEs do, rather than simple grep.
GitHub Ranked Gartner Leader in AI Coding for Third Consecutive Year
GitHub has entered the Leaders category in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents and serves 140,000 organizations with 100% year-over-year growth.
GitHub Launches an AI Agent for Accessibility Error Detection and Fixing
GitHub is experimenting with an AI agent that checks code for accessibility and automatically fixes common errors. The agent has already processed 3,500 pull requests with a 68% success rate.
GitHub Copilot Remote Control: work from your phone
Remote Control for GitHub Copilot lets you start coding in VS Code or CLI and continue working right from your iPhone or Android