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How people build software.

Hey, this is us 👋

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Yes, we are building GitHub on GitHub. In fact, we’ve been doing this since October 19th, 2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushed over 2.5 million commits, opened over 1 million issues, submitted roughly 650k pull requests across 4357 repositories from over 50 countries. 🤯 But that's just us. We are proud to be part of the work of millions of developers, companies and robots across the solar system. 🪐 Yes, Robots!

🍿 An interconnected community

The open source community is the 💗 heart of GitHub and fundamental to how we build software today. See for yourself:

  • GitHub Sponsors helped support more than 5k individuals and projects around the world 🌍
  • Open source projects on GitHub received a stunning 218 million contributions 🚀 in the last year alone
  • Every minute a developer creates a new release 🏄 for a public project on GitHub

Now that we are talking about the important things, ☝️ are you contributing to open source? Yes? Okay, you rock! 🎸 If not, we can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute.

🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem

We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while also maintaining 🧙‍♂️ our own open source projects like:

👓 Appendix

See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions. 🙇‍♂️ Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to join our team. 🙌

"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"

🤫 Psst! You can create your own organization README.

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  1. training-kit training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.6k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com choosealicense.com Public

    A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

    Ruby 3.9k 1.4k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.6k 458

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.9k 1.3k

  5. github-mcp-server github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 22.1k 2.4k

Repositories

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  • codeql Public

    CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

    github/codeql’s past year of commit activity
    CodeQL 8,675 MIT 1,773 880 (4 issues need help) 370 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

    Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

    github/advisory-database’s past year of commit activity
    1,950 CC-BY-4.0 465 71 32 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • opensourcefriday Public

    🚲 Contribute to the open source community every Friday

    github/opensourcefriday’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 1,202 MIT 169 0 1 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • explore Public

    Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub

    github/explore’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4,503 CC-BY-4.0 13,462 2 8 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • update-project-action Public

    Updates an item on a GitHub Projects (beta) board based on a workflow dispatch (or other) event's input.

    github/update-project-action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 29 MIT 17 4 12 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 17,788 CC-BY-4.0 63,089 49 (10 issues need help) 21 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • codeql-coding-standards Public

    This repository contains CodeQL queries and libraries which support various Coding Standards.

    github/codeql-coding-standards’s past year of commit activity
    CodeQL 167 MIT 68 101 18 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 156 MIT 71 6 9 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • artifact-attestations-workflows Public

    Demo repository showcasing how to use reusable workflows to build artifact attestations

    github/artifact-attestations-workflows’s past year of commit activity
    Python 10 CC0-1.0 1 0 1 Updated Sep 2, 2025
  • artifact-attestations-helm-charts Public

    Helm charts for verifying artifact attestations in Kubernetes

    github/artifact-attestations-helm-charts’s past year of commit activity
    Smarty 18 Apache-2.0 4 2 2 Updated Sep 1, 2025