How to debug a web app with Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot
Reproduce and debug web app issues with ease using the Playwright MCP server and GitHub Copilot.
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Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences
Explore how MCP elicitation transforms AI tool interactions by gathering missing information upfront.
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5 tips for writing better custom instructions for Copilot
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.
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Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
Latest
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GitHub is enabling broader access for developers in Syria following new government trade rules
With the relaxation of sanctions and export controls on Syria, GitHub will once again be broadly available to Syrian developers.
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Under the hood: Exploring the AI models powering GitHub Copilot
Learn how GitHub Copilot’s evolving models and infrastructure center developer choice and power agentic workflows.
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How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters
Learn how GitHub Models helps open source maintainers automate repetitive tasks like issue triage, duplicate detection, and contributor onboarding — saving hours each week.
Popular
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Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
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5 tips for writing better custom instructions for Copilot
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.
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GitHub is enabling broader access for developers in Syria following new government trade rules
With the relaxation of sanctions and export controls on Syria, GitHub will once again be broadly available to Syrian developers.
Engineering
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
Spotlight
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 candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
Using GitHub Copilot Free: What to know
Find out what you can do with the free tier of GitHub Copilot, the AI editor for everyone, and start building what’s next today.
Octoverse 2024: The rise of Python and AI
Find out how AI and a rapidly growing global developer community defined this past year on GitHub across public and open source projects.
News & insights
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Explore the best of GitHub Universe: 9 spaces built to spark creativity, connection, and joy
See what’s happening at Universe 2025, from experimental dev tools and career coaching to community-powered spaces. Save $400 on your pass with Early Bird pricing.
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Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub
Delegate coding tasks to Copilot and track progress wherever you are on GitHub. Copilot works in the background, creates a pull request, and tags you for review when finished.
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Q1 2025 Innovation Graph update: Bar chart races, data visualization on the rise, and key research
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through March 2025.
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GitHub Availability Report: July 2025
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️
tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure.
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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
Open source software is critical infrastructure, but it’s underfunded. With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.
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GitHub Universe 2025
Last chance: Save $700 on your IRL pass to Universe and join us on Oct. 28-29 in San Francisco.