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- GitHub Actions Tutorial - Basic Concepts and CI/CD Pipeline with Docker by (8 October 2020) ► An introduction to GitHub Actions.
- How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps — A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool—and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it. by (2 February 2022) ► A high-level introduction to GitHub Actions.
- Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid — A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files. by and (14 February 2022) ► A description of how GitHub integrated Mermaid.
- 6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline — From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline. by (19 July 2022) ► Some basics of a CI/CD pipeline: security checkers, phased testing, infrastructure as code…
- 5 simple things you can do with GitHub Packages to level up your workflows — From hosting private packages in a private repository to tightening your security profile with GITHUB_TOKEN, here are five simple ways you can streamline your workflow with GitHub Packages. by (4 August 2022) ► The advantages of using the package and container registry.
- The next step for LGTM.com: GitHub code scanning! — Today, GitHub code scanning has all of LGTM.com’s key features—and more! The time has therefore come to announce the plan for the gradual deprecation of LGTM.com. by (15 August 2022) ► The subtitle says it all.
- SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you? — We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects. by (9 September 2022) ► A short presentation of SCA and SAST, and what is available in GitHub.
- Unboxing fork improvements — We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand. by (20 October 2022) ► A list of the latest improvements done to simplify forks.
- Attacking the Software Supply Chain with a Simple Rename by and (26 October 2022) ► A new way to hijack a repository of a renamed user has been found.
- Why and how GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord::Encryption — You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard. by (26 October 2022) ► The title says it all.
- Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @ahacker1 — As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program. by (28 October 2022) ► A short interview of a bug bounty hunter.
- The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand — GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office. by (15 November 2022) ► GitHub is beta testing its mobile app.
- Exciting new GitHub features powering machine learning — Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more. by (22 November 2022) ► Improved diff display for Jupyter Notebooks and executing ML Notebook in Codespaces.
- An enterprise account is coming to all Enterprise customers — Administrators, or enterprise owners, have the increased responsibility of managing their account and keeping it secure. We are excited to introduce what is new with enterprise accounts and what is coming soon. by and (1 December 2022) ► All enterprise customers who pay will get access to an enterprise account.
- New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption — Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal. by (6 December 2022) ► Some npmjs.com improvements: tokens with a finer granularity, a code explorer, and enforcing 2FA for the maintainers of the most popular packages.
- Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times — How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. by (8 December 2022) ► The author tries to evaluate the cost of paying a more powerful server vs. the salary of the developers, but her model is too simplistic to be a good argument, despite the fact that her conclusion is consensual.
- Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free — GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub. by and (15 December 2022) ► Secret scanning is now available for public repositories.
- What’s with all the ducks? — What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain. by (23 December 2022) ► The origin of the rubber duck meme.
- Sunsetting Subversion support — On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion. by (20 January 2023) ► GitHub will drop Subversion support in one year.
- 100 million developers and counting — There are now 100 million developers around the world using GitHub. Here’s what this means—and why it’s just the beginning. by (25 January 2023) ► The title says it all.
- Action needed for GitHub Desktop and Atom users — Update to the latest version of Desktop and previous version of Atom before February 2. by (30 January 2023) ► Code signing certificates have been exfiltrated, GitHub Desktop should be upgraded and Atom downgraded.
- The technology behind GitHub’s new code search — A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index. by (6 February 2023) ► The title says it all.
- Update on the future stability of source code archives and hashes — A look at what happened on January 30, what measures we’re putting in place to prevent surprises, and how we’ll handle future changes. by (21 February 2023) ► GitHub reverted their change of the tarball generation and they define some rules in case they want to change it in the future. They also suggest downloading source files with the REST API or by using assets.
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Codespaces — Unlock the full potential of GitHub Codespaces with these 10 tips and tricks! From generating AI images to running self-guided coding workshops, discover how to optimize your software development workflow with this powerful tool. by (28 February 2023) ► Some examples of GitHub Codespaces usage.
- GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available by (1 March 2023) ► The title says it all.
- GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request — GitHub Desktop helps you feel confident in your Git and GitHub workflows. by (3 March 2023) ► GitHub Desktop is still maturing: it now supports pull request preview.
- How to automate your dev environment with dev containers and GitHub Codespaces — GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces. by (6 March 2023) ► An introduction to GitHub Codespaces.
- Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code — Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE. by (28 March 2023) ► The title says it all.
- Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails by (6 April 2023) ► GitHub is now upgrading Rails once a week.
- What developers need to know about generative AI — Generative AI has been dominating the news lately—but what exactly is it? Here’s what you need to know, and what it means for developers. by (7 April 2023) ► I do not see the point of such an article: everybody should by now know about these AI tools and the author gives a very positive description of them.
- How GitHub's Database Self-Destructed in 43 Seconds by (12 June 2023) ► A description of the 21 October 2018 incident.
- Unit testing Python code using Pytest + GitHub Actions by (22 June 2023) ► A simple example of a pipeline running Pytest tests.
- GitHub merge queue is generally available — Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue. by (12 July 2023) ► GitHub adds merge queues, a mechanism building and checking the merged code before performing the real merge. This is the same as the old TFS’ gated check-in builds.
- Scaling merge-ort across GitHub — GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change. by (27 July 2023) ► The subtitle says it all.
- A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot — Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request. by (24 August 2023) ► Dependabot now supports grouped updates.
- Optimize your GitHub Codespaces costs with upgraded virtual machines — See how much more you can get out of GitHub Codespaces by taking advantage of the improved processing power and increased headroom in the next generation of virtual machines. by (31 August 2023) ► Some new VMs with twice the previous RAM.
- CodeQL team uses AI to power vulnerability detection in code — Learn how GitHub’s CodeQL leveraged AI modeling and multi-repository variant analysis to discover a new CVE in Gradle. by and (12 September 2023) ► The CodeQL team is using AI to automatically model framework APIs.
- Announcing the GitHub Innovation Graph — Explore a universe of data about how the world is building software together on GitHub. by (21 September 2023) ► GitHub provides access to some statistical data.
- The GitHub Security Lab’s journey to disclosing 500 CVEs in open source projects — The GitHub Security Lab audits open source projects for security vulnerabilities and helps maintainers fix them. Recently, we passed the milestone of 500 CVEs disclosed. Let’s take a trip down memory lane with a review of some noteworthy CVEs! by (21 September 2023) ► The history of the GitHub Security Lab.
- Developers are the first group to adopt AI at work. Here’s why that matters. — From starting at GitHub over 10 years ago as a developer to becoming the Chief Operating Officer, I’ve learned that developers are often bellwethers for change across the rest of their organizations. That makes investing in—and learning from—them critical. by (27 October 2023) ► A messy article about a survey, AI, small collaborative teams, inner source…
- Universe’s key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform — Discover new AI-powered features and tools to help developers stay in the flow and organizations innovate at scale. by (15 November 2023) ► Some marketing: new feature announcements.
- Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 — GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0. by , , and (7 December 2023) ► A detailed description of GitHub’s upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0.
- Our move to generated SDKs — GitHub SDKs: software generated meets hand curated. by (3 January 2024) ► GitHub will now automatically generate Go and .Net SDKs by running Kiota on the OpenAPI description of GitHub API.
- Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects — Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup. by (21 March 2024) ► GitHub CLI, project templates, collating issues from any organisation onto a single project, and bulk edit.
- GitHub named a Leader in the Gartner first-ever Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants — This year, as part of its annual Magic Quadrant series, Gartner published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing the state of play in the AI Code Assistants market–and named GitHub a Leader. (22 August 2024) ► The usual announcement after Gartner published one of their dubious quadrants.
- Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges — In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size. (29 October 2024) ► A long list of numbers.
- Exploring GitHub CLI: How to interact with GitHub’s GraphQL API endpoint — Discover practical tips and tricks for forming effective GraphQL queries and mutations. by (22 April 2025) ► A presentation of GraphQL, its differences with REST, and how to use it via GitHuv CLI.
- How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows — The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI. by (25 April 2025) ►
gh prwill now always use the same remote and branch asgit pullandgit pushdo. - Giving software away for free by (28 April 2025) ► recommends GitHub Pages, HTML pages, and Pyoxide as the most stable way to deliver free software.
- 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. by (13 May 2025) ► A detailed description of the implementation and rollout of the new issue filters.
- The present, past and future of GitHub — How GitHub evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work, why it hires more junior devs than ever before, and how GH Copilot was built thanks to a happy accident. With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke (⧉) by and (18 June 2025) ► The story of GitHub.
- Solving the inference problem for open source AI projects with GitHub Models — How using GitHub’s free inference API can make your AI-powered open source software more accessible. by (23 July 2025) ► GitHub is proposing a free tier so open-source projects can offer some free AI usage to their users (assuming their software runs in GitHub Actions).
- A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server — 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. by (30 July 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI — The role of junior developer is evolving. If you’re at this stage in your career, here’s how to keep up and stand out. by (7 August 2025) ► Some advice for young developers, but I am not sure that asking the AI to write tests and to debug is a good way to learn.
- Configuring GitHub Codespaces using devcontainers by (12 August 2025) ► An introduction to GitHub Codespaces.
- Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers — This is your new home base for discovering MCP servers. Learn how we’re working with the broader community on MCP publication and discovery. by (16 September 2025) ► Yet another catalogue of MCP servers. Given the importance of GitHub, this one may succeed.
- How to find, install, and manage MCP servers with the GitHub MCP Registry — Learn how to bring structure and security to your AI ecosystem with the GitHub MCP Registry, the single source of truth for managing and governing MCP servers. by (24 October 2025) ► An overview of GitHub MCP Registry: how to install a MCP server, how to publish one, how to write a publication pipeline, and how to define an allow list.
- Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge by (28 October 2025) ► Using Claude to analyse the code present by default on GitHub Universe’s badge and, then, to program it.
- Why Github Why? by (10 December 2025) ► Some real bad code in GitHub actions.
- Let’s talk about GitHub Actions — A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience. by (11 December 2025) ► Some recent and future improvements to GitHub Actions.
- Microsoft is ruining Github by (21 December 2025) ► GitHub reverted his decision to charge for Actions run on self-hosted runners.
- Introducing gisthost.github.io by (1 January 2026) ► explains what is gistpreview, its implementation, and how he (or rather Claude) slightly modified it.
- Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers. — Open source is hitting an “Eternal September.” As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions. by (12 February 2026) ► GitHub starts to look at the problem of the tsunami of AI-generated sloppy PRs, but they have very little to propose for the time being.
- GitHub Copilot
- Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same — Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy by (30 June 2022) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness — When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers. by (7 September 2022) ► A survey and an experiment demonstrating that developers using GitHub Copilot deliver faster, are more focused, and happier. But what about code quality?
- Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot boosts developer productivity, but using it responsibly still requires good developer and DevSecOps practices. by (22 February 2023) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Get Started with GitHub Copilot in VS Code (2023) by (4 March 2023) ► An advertisement for GitHub Copilot.
- Game over… GitHub Copilot X announced by (23 March 2023) ► A summary of GitHub Copilot X announcement.
- Taking Copilot to difficult terrain by (9 June 2023) ► A rather positive test of using GitHub Copilot to write some Rust unit tests.
- Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model — We’re thrilled to announce two major updates to GitHub Copilot code Completion’s capabilities that will help developers work even more efficiently and effectively. by (28 July 2023) ► Some advertisement for GitHub Copilot.
- GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals — All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages. by (20 September 2023) ► The subtitle says it all.
- GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter by (4 December 2023) ► A description of GitHub Copilot new features.
- GitHub Copilot now controls your command line... by (22 March 2024) ► A fast presentation of
gh copilot explainandgh copilot suggest. - First Look: Exploring OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot — We’ve tested integrating OpenAI o1-preview with GitHub Copilot. Here’s a first look at where we think it can add value to your day to day. by (12 September 2024) ► GitHub dev team starts to play with GPT o1, but the two examples are very probably cherry-picked.
- Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models — OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground. by (19 September 2024) ► The title says it all.
- Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview — At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer. by (29 October 2024) ► GitHub Copilot adds the support of Sonnet 3.5, Gemini 1.5 Pro, GPT o1-preview, and GPT o1-mini.
- How to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples — Learn how to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot and get specific examples, a tutorial, and best practices. by (5 December 2024) ► Some guidance for generating unit tests, but the Python and JavaScript examples are ridiculously simple.
- Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code — Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code. by (18 December 2024) ► GitHub introduces a free Copilot tier.
- A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code by (18 December 2024) ► The same information.
- Github's FREE Copilot VSCode: This Is THE BEST FREE AI Editor that Beats CURSOR, V0 & Bolt! by (19 December 2024) ► An introduction to GitHub Copilot.
- Inside the research: How GitHub Copilot impacts the nature of work for open source maintainers — An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work. by (20 December 2024) ► This article contains little information about the findings of and on analysing the impact of GitHub Copilot on developers, it is mostly about the analysis method and the author themselves.
- GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens — Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. by (6 February 2025) ► The subtitle says it all.
- New GitHub Copilot code completion model: GPT-4o Copilot (18 February 2025) ► GitHub Copilot has a new model: GPT-4o Copilot, a fine-tuned GPT-4o mini. But this smells bullshit, e.g. they do not give the exact number of languages on which it has been trained.
- Copilot agent mode new features in Visual Studio Code | GitHub Checkout by and (4 March 2025) ► A demo Copilot’s agent mode, Microsoft is trying to catch up with Cursor, Codeium…
- Which AI model should I use with GitHub Copilot? — Ever wondered which AI model is the best fit for your GitHub Copilot project? Here are some things to consider. by (17 April 2025) ► It seems that the author wants to name all models, so his advice is really unclear.
- The AI-powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration — Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Let’s dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot. by (1 May 2025) ► Yet another basic presentation of GitHub Copilot. This one is focused on writing documentation and commit messages, performing code reviews, and solving merge conflicts.
- How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub — Learn how to spin up a GitHub Issue, hand it to Copilot, and get a draft pull request in the same workflow you already know. by (5 June 2025) ► It is now possible to ask Copilot to write an issue… and to assign it to Copilot.
- Assigning and completing issues with coding agent in GitHub Copilot — Have you tried the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot? Here’s how developers are using it to work more efficiently. by (6 June 2025) ► A presentation of GitHub’s Coding Agent.
- GitHub Copilot Spaces: Bring the right context to every suggestion — Learn how to build your first space in minutes and customize Copilot to match your team’s unique coding style and workflows. by (18 June 2025) ► A presentation of GitHub Copilot Spaces: the definition of the context and the instructions provided to a model.
- microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat by (30 June 2025) ► Microsoft open-source GitHub Copilot Chat client. is looking at the prompts present in that code case.
- 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. by (29 August 2025) ► The list of AI features in GitHub Copilot and the list of models usable for these.
- 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. by (3 September 2025) ► suggests including, in the instructions for the LLM: an overview of the project, the tech stack, the coding guidelines, the project structure, and the usable scripts/resources.
- 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. by (5 September 2025) ► Using Playwright MCP Server to reproduce a bug and to verify its correction.
- 5 ways to integrate GitHub Copilot coding agent into your workflow — Already know the basics of GitHub Copilot coding agent? Here are five ways to offload chores, tackle tech debt, and keep your workflow moving fast. by (18 September 2025) ► Handling some small technical debt tasks, generating screenshots to prove the code is working properly, using feature branches, the different ways to launch the coding agent, and using MCP Servers.
- GitHub Copilot gets smarter at finding your code: Inside our new embedding model — Learn about a new Copilot embedding model that makes code search in VS Code faster, lighter on memory, and far more accurate. by (24 September 2025) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI — I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨ by (30 September 2025) ► suggests writing and updating a specification as input for a coding agent, but I am not convinced that this is realistic for creating and maintaining a medium or large application.
- GitHub Copilot CLI: How to get started — Discover how to use GitHub Copilot directly in the terminal. From cloning a repository to opening a pull request, here’s how to streamline your workflow with Copilot CLI. by (13 October 2025) ► A presentation of GitHub Copilot CLI, suggesting to use it to generate PRs for open-source projects. I am not sure project maintainers will appreciate this positively…
- How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering — See how this three-part framework will turn AI into a repeatable and reliable engineering practice. by (13 October 2025) ► The idea of organising prompts is good, but this explanation is not so clear, and, more basically, the author ignores the fact that LLMs are not deterministic or do not always apply their instructions successfully.
- The road to better completions: Building a faster, smarter GitHub Copilot with a new custom model — Find out about the latest custom models powering the completions experience in GitHub Copilot. by and (23 October 2025) ► A description how GitHub trains and evaluates their custom models used for code completion.
- GitHub Copilot CLI 101: How to use GitHub Copilot from the command line — Curious about using GitHub Copilot in your terminal? Here’s our guide to GitHub Copilot CLI, including a starter kit with the best prompts for a wide range of use cases. by (6 November 2025) ► Yet another presentation of the CLI tool.
- Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files — Discover practical tips, examples, and best practices for writing effective instructions files. Whether you’re new or experienced, you’ll find something to level up your code reviews. by (14 November 2025) ► How to write instruction files for Copilot code review.
- How GitHub’s agentic security principles make our AI agents as secure as possible — Learn more about the agentic security principles that we use to build secure AI products—and how you can apply them to your own agents. by (25 November 2025) ► The subtitle says it all.
- WRAP up your backlog with GitHub Copilot coding agent — An easy-to-remember acronym, WRAP will help you write effective issues, refine your instructions, and get the most out of Copilot coding agent. by and (26 December 2025) ► The acronym (Write effective issues, Refine your instructions, Atomic tasks, Pair with the coding agent) does not provide a good structure to describe how to pilot an agent.
- Building an agentic memory system for GitHub Copilot — Copilot’s cross-agent memory system lets agents learn and improve across your development workflow, starting with coding agent, CLI, and code review. by (15 January 2026) ► GitHub is experimenting with providing a tool to record memories, inserting these memories in the newly launched agents, and asking them to verify and confirm/update the recordS. This is interesting, but I wonder how scaleable this is: can you have hundred of memory records? what about agents verifying them over and over?
- A cheat sheet to slash commands in GitHub Copilot CLI — Run tests, fix code, and get support—right in your workflow. Stay focused and let Copilot handle the busywork. by (21 January 2026) ► An introduction to slash commands and a list of available ones.
- Build an agent into any app with the GitHub Copilot SDK — Now in technical preview, the GitHub Copilot SDK can plan, invoke tools, edit files, and run commands as a programmable layer you can use in any application. by (22 January 2026) ► This presentation of GitHub Copilot SDK, which can be used to embed GitHub Copilot agentic loop, contain too little information.
- From idea to pull request: A practical guide to building with GitHub Copilot CLI — A hands-on guide to using GitHub Copilot CLI to move from intent to reviewable changes, and how that work flows naturally into your IDE and GitHub. by (27 February 2026) ► A tutorial article explaining how and when to use GitHub Copilot CLI. It is simplistic, but this may be a good starting point for those who never used it.
- GitHub Spark
- Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark by (24 July 2025) ► used GitHub Sparks to document GitHub Sparks.