GitHub Universe

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github-universe-2026

Catch up on the key announcements shaping the future of software development

github-platform

stacked-pull-requests

Break complex work into changes everyone can follow

stacked-pull-requests

Break large changes into focused, linked pull requests. Review each independently, then merge the full stack in one click.

Create a pull request stack Read the docs

Opens a pre-configured Codespace with all the dependencies needed

github-cli-attach

Add images and videos from your terminal

Use GitHub CLI’s repeatable --attach flag to add images and videos inline in issues, pull requests, or comments.

Attach with GitHub CLI Read the docs

Opens a pre-configured Codespace with all the dependencies needed

issue-artifacts

Keep the plan with the work

Attach plans, research, links, and other artifacts to an issue so your team can find the thinking behind the work.

Add an artifact Read the docs

Opens a Copilot app canvas for guided activity (5–10 min). Download Copilot app.

repository-pull-requests

Find the pull requests that need you

Scan open work, understand its status, and jump into what needs your attention next.

View pull requests Read the docs

github-copilot

copilot-fusion

Choose the effort. Copilot handles the models.

copilot-fusion

Select Standard, High, or Max. Copilot Fusion determines whether to use one model or combine multiple models, balancing quality, speed, and cost for the task.

Learn about Copilot Fusion Copilot benchmarks

copilot-projects

Turn a goal into coordinated work

Copilot Projects keep goals, context, sessions, and results together, coordinating parallel work across one or more repositories so you can track progress and direct what happens next.

Download the app Read the docs

copilot-automations

Keep work moving automatically

Run reusable Copilot tasks on demand, on a schedule, or from triggers. Share them with your team and control their access, actions, and cost.

Create an automation Read the docs

Opens a Copilot app canvas for guided activity (25–30 min). Download Copilot app.

copilot-connectors

Use your tools across Copilot

Authenticate once to services like Vercel, Cloudflare, and Sentry. GitHub configures and manages the supported MCP server connection across the Copilot app, CLI, VS Code, web and code review.

Explore tools Read the docs

github-security

security-extension

Act on security risk while you build

security-extension

Review what you and your agents just wrote alongside your repository's code scanning alerts in one Security canvas. Ask Copilot to explain and fix findings, then review each change.

Open in Copilot app Read the docs

ai-scan

Find and fix vulnerabilities in any language

Scan a whole repository on demand and assign the backlog of findings to Copilot to fix. AI Scan also checks pull requests in languages CodeQL doesn't cover.

Read the docs

push-protection

Block the secrets that patterns miss

Push protection now uses AI to catch unstructured secrets, like passwords, and blocks them at push, whether you or your agents wrote the code.

Read the docs

Both push protection and AI secret detection must be enabled

supply-chain

Keep risky packages out and fix what matters

Package firewall blocks malicious and risky npm packages before agents, runners, or IDEs install them. Reachability analysis shows which vulnerable functions your JavaScript code calls, so you fix those first.

Learn about Reachability analysis Learn about Package firewall

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