The present AI panorama presents a problem we’re all too conversant in: unimaginable energy fragmented throughout completely different instruments and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve at all times labored to resolve these sorts of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code overview systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions.
With 180 million builders, GitHub is rising at its quickest fee ever—a brand new developer becoming a member of each second. What’s extra, 80% of recent builders are utilizing Copilot of their first week. AI isn’t only a instrument anymore; it’s an integral a part of the event expertise. Our duty is to make sure this new period of collaboration is highly effective, safe, and seamlessly built-in into the workflow you already belief.
At GitHub Universe, we’re saying Agent HQ, GitHub’s imaginative and prescient for the subsequent evolution of our platform. Brokers shouldn’t be bolted on. They need to work the best way you already work. That’s why we’re making brokers native to the GitHub stream.
Agent HQ transforms GitHub into an open ecosystem that unites each agent on a single platform. Over the approaching months, coding brokers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and extra will change into out there immediately inside GitHub as a part of your paid GitHub Copilot subscription.
To carry this imaginative and prescient to life, we’re delivery a collection of recent capabilities constructed on the primitives you belief. This begins with a mission management, a single command middle to assign, steer, and observe the work of a number of brokers from anyplace. It extends to VS Code with new methods to plan and customise agent habits. And it’s backed by enterprise-grade performance: a brand new technology of agentic code overview, a devoted management airplane to control AI entry and agent habits, and a metrics dashboard to grasp the affect of AI in your work.
We’re additionally deeply dedicated to investing in our platform and strengthening the primitives you depend on day by day. This new world of improvement is powered by that foundational work, and we sit up for sharing extra updates.
Let’s dive in.
GitHub is your Agent HQ: An open ecosystem for all brokers
The long run is about supplying you with the facility to orchestrate a fleet of specialised brokers to carry out complicated duties in parallel, not juggling a patchwork of disconnected instruments or counting on a single agent. Because the pioneer of asynchronous collaboration, we consider it’s our duty to verify these next-generation async instruments simply work.
With Agent HQ what’s not altering is simply as necessary as what is. You’re nonetheless working with the primitives you recognize—Git, pull requests, points—and utilizing your most popular compute, whether or not that’s GitHub Actions or self-hosted runners. You’re accessing brokers via your present paid Copilot subscription.
On high of that basis, we’re opening the doorways to a brand new world of functionality. Over the approaching months, coding brokers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, and xAI can be out there on GitHub as a part of your paid GitHub Copilot subscription.
Don’t wish to wait? Beginning this week, Copilot Professional+ customers can start working with OpenAI Codex in VS Code Insiders, the primary of our accomplice brokers to increase past its native surfaces and immediately into the editor.
Mission management: Your command middle, wherever you construct
The ability of Agent HQ comes from mission management, a unified command middle that follows you wherever you’re employed. It’s not a single vacation spot; it’s a constant interface throughout GitHub, VS Code, cell, and the CLI that allows you to direct, monitor, and handle each AI-driven activity. With mission management, you may select from a fleet of brokers, assign them work in parallel, and observe their progress from any machine.
We’re additionally offering:
- New department controls that provide you with granular oversight over when to run CI and different checks for agent-created code.
- Identification options to regulate which agent is constructing the duty, managing entry, and insurance policies identical to you’d with every other developer in your workforce.
- One-click merge battle decision, improved file navigation, and higher code commenting capabilities.
- New integrations for Slack and Linear, on high of our lately introduced connections for Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Groups and Azure Boards, and Raycast.
Strive mission management at the moment.
New in VS Code: Plan, customise, and join
Mission management is in VS Code, too, so that you’ve received a single view of all of your brokers working in VS Code, within the Copilot CLI, or on GitHub.
Right now’s model new launch in VS Code is all about working alongside brokers on tasks, and it’s not shocking that nice outcomes begin with a terrific plan. Getting the context proper earlier than a venture is crucial, however that very same context wants to hold via into the work. Copilot already adapts to the best way your workforce works by studying out of your recordsdata and your venture’s tradition, however generally you want extra pointed context.
So at the moment, we’re introducing Plan Mode, which works with Copilot, and asks you clarifying questions alongside the best way, that can assist you to construct a step-by-step method to your activity. Offering the context upfront improves what Copilot can do and helps you discover gaps, lacking choices, or venture deficiencies early within the course of—earlier than any code is written. When you approve, your plan goes to Copilot to begin implementing, whether or not that’s domestically in VS Code or utilizing an agent within the cloud.
For even finer management, now you can create customized brokers in VS Code with AGENTS.md recordsdata, source-controlled paperwork that allow you to set clear guidelines and guardrails resembling “favor this logger” or “use table-driven checks for all handlers.” This shapes Copilot’s habits with out you re-prompting it each time.
Now you may depend on the brand new GitHub MCP Registry, out there immediately in VS Code. VS Code is the solely editor that helps the complete MCP specification. Uncover, set up, and allow MCP servers like Stripe, Figma, Sentry, and others, with a single click on. When your activity requires a specialist, create customized brokers in GitHub Copilot with their very own system immediate and instruments that can assist you outline the methods you need Copilot to work.
Elevated confidence and management to your workforce
Agent HQ doesn’t simply provide you with extra energy—it offers you confidence. Making certain code high quality, understanding AI’s affect in your workflow, and sustaining management over how AI interacts along with your codebase and group are important to your workforce’s success, and we’re tackling these challenges head-on.
With regards to code high quality, the core downside is that “LGTM” doesn’t at all times imply “the code is wholesome.” A overview can cross, however can nonetheless degrade the codebase and rapidly change into long-term technical debt. With GitHub Code High quality, in public preview at the moment, you’ve received org-wide visibility, governance, and reporting to systematically enhance code maintainability, reliability, and check protection throughout each repository. Enabling it extends Copilot’s safety checks to have a look at the maintainability and reliability affect of the code that’s been modified.
And we’ve added a code overview step into the Copilot coding agent’s workflow, too, so Copilot will get an preliminary first-line overview and addresses issues (earlier than you even see the code).
As a company, you have to know the way Copilot is getting used. So at the moment, we’re saying the general public preview of the Copilot metrics dashboard, displaying Copilot’s affect and significant utilization metrics throughout your complete group.
For enterprise directors who’re managing AI entry, together with AI brokers and MCP, we’re targeted on offering constant AI controls for groups with the management airplane—your agent governance layer. Set safety insurance policies, audit logging, and handle entry multi function place. Enterprise admins can even management which brokers are allowed, outline entry to fashions, and acquire metrics in regards to the Copilot utilization in your group.
For builders, by builders
We constructed Agent HQ as a result of we’re builders, too. We all know what it’s like when it looks like your instruments are combating you rather than serving to you. When “AI-powered” finally ends up that means extra context-switching, extra babysitting, extra subscriptions, and extra time explaining what you have to get the worth you had been promised.
That ends at the moment.
Agent HQ isn’t in regards to the hype of AI. It’s in regards to the actuality of delivery code. It’s about bringing order and governance to this new period with out compromising alternative. It’s about giving you the facility to construct sooner, with extra confidence, and in your phrases.
Welcome house. Let’s construct.
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