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Join rotating hosts from GitHub’s Developer Advocacy team - including Andrea Griffiths, Cassidy Williams, Kedasha Kerr, and more for the latest in developer, open source, and GitHub news.
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A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings
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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
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GitHub Checkout
In this episode of GitHub Checkout, we sit down with Copilot CLI Product Manager Ryan Hecht to explore the latest experimental features. We cover the plugin marketplace, the /chronicle slash command for self-healing prompts, and how to run Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3 simultaneously. We also walk through how /fleet mode and autopilot can handle massive refactoring tasks while you step away.
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TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
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Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.
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The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
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Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent.
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Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
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GitHub Copilot SDK Reddit Contest Winners
A collection of projects from the winners of the GitHub Copilot SDK weekend contest held the weekend of January 25, 2026.
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Airbrake
Deploy code fearlessly and fix bugs faster with Airbrake Error & Performance Monitoring. Airbrake notifiers are available for every major programming language and framework and installs in minutes. Spend less time tracking down problems and more time developing.
Discover the power of Airbrake and create a free dev account, which comes with unlimited errors and events for the first 30-days. Quick sign-up, no credit card required. Go to https://airbrake.io/new for more info.
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A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.
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Spec-driven development (SDD) for AI coding assistants.
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Anki is a smart spaced repetition flashcard program
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Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork
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Memory and context engine + app that is extremely fast, scalable, and can be run fully locally. The Memory API for the AI era.
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AI-assisted TradingView chart analysis — connect Claude Code to your TradingView Desktop for personal workflow automation
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RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
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The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
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Secure environments for developers and their agents
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Free, simple, fast interactive diagrams for any GitHub repository
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Your own search engine
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Sweep AI
Sweep is now an AI coding assistant for JetBrains. Learn more: https://sweep.dev/
