Microsoft-owned GitHub unveiled Agent HQ, an open ecosystem that represents the next phase in its evolution as a developer platform, during its annual GitHub Universe 2025 conference in San Francisco.
With Agent HQ, GitHub aims to create a space where artificial intelligence (AI) agents can coexist and collaborate on a single platform. In the coming months, coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and others will become available directly within GitHub, accessible to developers through a paid GitHub Copilot subscription.
Emerging markets: GitHub's growth engine
The launch marks a major step in GitHub’s ambition to become the primary destination for AI-assisted software development as it works toward its goal of reaching one billion developers by 2030.
GitHub stated that the platform is growing at its fastest rate ever with a new developer joining every second and currently has over 180 million developers.
Much of the growth came from India, Brazil, and Indonesia, on the back of large, young developer populations with expanding internet access and booming startup ecosystems. There is also rapid rise in AI-related projects, as local companies adopt new tools to compete globally.
India, in fact emerged as GitHub’s fastest growing developer hub with 21.9 million users, with the largest public and open-source contributor base in the world. This is up from the company's earlier figure of 18 million in April 2025.
What Agent HQ will do
GitHub will add capabilities such as a mission control, a single command centre to assign, steer and track the work of multiple agents from anywhere.
It will also have a new generation of agentic code review, a dedicated control panel to govern AI access and agent behaviour, and a metrics dashboard to understand the impact of AI on a developer’s work.
“Agent HQ is about giving you the power to build faster, with more confidence, and on your terms,” said Kyle Daigle, COO, GitHub, adding that this will help developers manage AI agents to perform complex tasks in parallel, instead of relying on a single agent.
Starting this week, Copilot Pro+ subscribers (a paid tier of GitHub’s AI coding assistant) can give specific coding tasks to OpenAI Codex (a software engineering agent that writes and edits code) inside VS Code Insiders, which is an early-access beta version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio code editor.
“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.
Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic, said “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.”
TypeScript whizzes past Python
Separately, GitHub said that TypeScript has overtaken Python as the top programming language as developers are shifting towards typed languages that improve agent-assisted coding.
GitHub, acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, has been working on infusing AI across every step of the developer lifecycle. In the past, this has included a code completion tool, Copilot, in 2022, Copilot Chat for natural language-powered coding in 2023 and an AI developer environment, GitHub Copilot Workspace, in April 2024.
With the platform becoming increasingly important to Microsoft's broader strategy to woo developers, the software giant has also moved it closer to its CoreAI unit, headed by former Meta executive Jay Parikh.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke also announced plans to step down in August 2025, with the rest of GitHub’s leadership team reporting directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team.
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