GitHub Next investigates the future of software development.

We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub, exploring things beyond the adjacent possible. We prototype tools and technologies that will change our craft. We identify new approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.

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Mikkel Malmberg

Agent skill: dialing in the work, four knobs at a time

You haven’t lost control. You’re just holding too much at once. On constraints, the OP-1, and dialing in what agents build, four knobs at a time, with Quadknob.

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Landon Cox Peli de Halleux Rodrigo Fonseca Grace Jia Vic Li Pedro Henrique Penna

Limit what agents learn about private repos with enclaves

Enclaves are a new security primitive for cross-repository GitHub Agentic Workflows. Enclaves let agents work on different repositories while limiting what they say to each other.

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Russell Horton

Sparkle Pills

A flexible templating convention for contextual inference

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Alex Gorischek

Knowledge Compressor

How far can documentation be compressed without losing its meaning?

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Russell Horton

WikiKB: a fast, repository-native knowledge base for people and agents

WikiKB is an efficient, transparent, and explicitly curated knowledge base layer for humans and agents, built on the GitHub repository wiki.