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The product is a developer platform for hosting code, collaborating on software, and automating build, test, and deployment workflows while securing code and managing projects. It addresses the need to write, review, track, and ship software across distributed teams. It sells to individual developers, engineering teams, and operations and IT teams in startups, small and medium teams, enterprises, and nonprofits across industries. It is delivered as a cloud SaaS platform with marketplace and community extensions, including hosted development environments and automation services.

Key features

• Write code with GitHub Copilot
• Copilot Chat and Agent mode
• Direct agents from issue to merge
• MCP Registry for external tools
• Automate workflows with Actions
• Instant dev environments with Codespaces
• Plan and track work with Issues
• Manage code changes with Code Review
• Enforce quality at merge
• Find and fix vulnerabilities with Advanced Security
• Secure code as you build
• Stop leaks with secret protection
• Code search and Discussions
• Extend stack with Marketplace apps