GitHub is the world’s most widely adopted AI-powered developer platform for building, shipping, and securing software on a single, collaborative platform. It is a massive cloud-based service for hosting and managing Git repositories, enabling collaborative version control and development workflows for teams of any size.
The platform’s main features are centered around AI, automation, and collaboration. At its core is GitHub Copilot, an AI assistant embedded throughout the workflow for code completion, chat, and other assistance that helps developers work significantly faster. For security, GitHub Advanced Security uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities, featuring tools like Copilot Autofix and Dependabot for automatically updating vulnerable dependencies. Collaboration is streamlined with Code Review processes, GitHub Issues for planning and tracking work, and GitHub Discussions for conversation outside of the code. The platform enables automation through GitHub Actions for simple and secure CI/CD, and offers instant, cloud-based development environments with GitHub Codespaces. Finally, it provides tools like Code Search for quickly finding code across the platform and the GitHub Marketplace for integrating with over 17,000 tools and extensions.
