GitHub has announced Agent HQ—its vision for the next evolution of its platform. Agent HQ transforms GitHub into an open ecosystem that unites every agent on a single platform. Over the coming months, coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and more, will become available directly within GitHub as part of developers’ paid GitHub Copilot subscription.
With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its fastest rate ever with a new developer joining every second. What’s more, 80% of new developers are using Copilot in their first week. AI isn’t just a tool anymore; it’s an integral part of the development experience. GitHub’s responsibility is to ensure this new era of collaboration is powerful, secure, and seamlessly integrated into the workflow developers already trust.
To bring this vision to life, GitHub is shipping a suite of new capabilities built on the primitives developers trust. This starts with a mission control, a single command center to assign, steer and track the work of multiple agents from anywhere. It extends to VS Code, with new ways to plan and customize agent behavior. And is backed by enterprise-grade functionality: a new generation of agentic code review, a dedicated control plane to govern AI access and agent behavior, and a metrics dashboard to understand the impact of AI on a developer’s work.
“We built Agent HQ because we’re developers, too. We know what it’s like when it feels like your tools are fighting you instead of helping you. When “AI-powered” ends up meaning more context-switching, more babysitting, more subscriptions, and more time explaining what you need to get the value you were promised. That ends today,
“Agent HQ isn’t about the hype of AI. It’s about the reality of shipping code. It’s about bringing order and governance to this new era without compromising choice. It’s about giving you the power to build faster, with more confidence, and on your terms,” said Kyle Daigle, COO, GitHub.
“Our collaboration with GitHub has always pushed the frontier of how developers build software. The first Codex model helped power Copilot and inspired a new generation of AI-assisted coding. We share GitHub’s vision of meeting developers wherever they work, and we’re excited to bring Codex to millions more developers who use GitHub and VS Code, extending the power of Codex everywhere code gets written,” said Alexander Embiricos, Codex Product Lead, OpenAI.
“We’re partnering with GitHub to bring Claude even closer to how teams build software. With Agent HQ, Claude can pick up issues, create branches, commit code, and respond to pull requests, working alongside your team like any other collaborator. This is how we think the future of development works: agents and developers building together, on the infrastructure you already trust,” said Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic.
