Organization
GitHub
GitHub is a developer platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California21. This catalog lists 1 software project from GitHub, under licenses including the MIT License.
Documented roles: Developer platform
Subsidiary of Microsoft
GitHub runs a platform for hosting and collaborating on code, with cloud and on-premises offerings, and develops the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant. It is owned by Microsoft, which reports GitHub within its Intelligent Cloud segment.463
Using this organization’s offerings
The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.
Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Unit of another organization
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Unknown
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Agents
What is and isn’t public
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot (external site: docs.github.com) | Developer tool | AI coding assistant with a free tier (Copilot Free) that has limited features, paid individual plans (Pro, Pro+, Max), and per-seat Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans for organizations, per GitHub's plan documentation.67 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| GitHub Copilot CLI (external site: docs.github.com) | Developer tool | Terminal interface for Copilot that answers questions, writes and debugs code, and works with GitHub.com; GitHub's plan documentation lists it as included in all Copilot plans. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows (PowerShell or WSL).87 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Spec Kit (external site: github.com) | Developer tool | Open-source (MIT) toolkit installed as a Python command-line tool that sets up spec-driven development and other structured processes for AI coding agents.1011 | Oct 1, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Frameworks
- Spec KitSoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Parent organization: Microsoft (Subsidiary)
Microsoft announced on October 26, 2018 that it had completed its acquisition of GitHub. Microsoft's Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 describes GitHub among the server products and cloud services in its Intelligent Cloud segment, and GitHub's privacy statement names Microsoft as a GitHub affiliate. Exhibit 21 to that 10-K lists only selected subsidiaries and does not name GitHub, Inc.3425
Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.
Notable documented facts
- GitHub's documentation states that GitHub Models, a separate service that offered a model playground, model catalog, and inference API, was fully retired as of July 30, 2026, and points users to Azure AI Foundry or GitHub Copilot instead.9
- GitHub announced Spec Kit on its blog in September 2025 as an open-source toolkit for spec-driven development with coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI.12
In the news
GitHub MCP Server 2.0.0 adds structured outputs and output schemas for newer MCP clients
GitHub published version 2.0.0 of the GitHub MCP Server on October 6, 2026. The release notes say it adds support for structured outputs and output schemas to help agents that use Code Mode or programmatic tool calling, and that these schemas are advertised only to clients that declare support for the MCP 2026-07-28 specification or later. According to the notes, the server's compound tools needed changes to their allowed output schemas, so those schemas are not returned to older clients. The listed changes add typed outputs, and for some tools typed inputs, across issue, pull request, repository, search, security alert, and Actions tools. USASI has not tested this release.
GitHub's Spec Kit reaches version 1.0.0
GitHub's Spec Kit project published version 1.0.0 on GitHub on August 21, 2026. The release notes give instructions for installing the specify CLI from the v1.0.0 tag and list the changes in the version, which are mostly fixes and updates to extensions and presets in the community catalog, including an update of the Security Review extension to v2.0.0 and a fix that rejects duplicate template entries in presets. The change list shows the version follows the 0.16.5 release. USASI has not tested Spec Kit 1.0.0.
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 published as an open specification for packaging agent skills and MCP servers
On August 6, 2026 Vercel announced Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral specification for packaging extensions for AI agents so that one plugin format works across compatible clients. A plugin is a directory with a plugin.json manifest and fixed locations for its components, with Agent Skills under skills/ and MCP server configuration in mcp.json. Vercel says it initiated the proposal, that representatives from AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel refined it into version 1.0.0, and that the initial Technical Steering Committee includes core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code are listed as supported at launch.
Open positions
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What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Job listings: automated collection is not configured; only the official careers link is shown.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control
Microsoft announced that it completed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26, 2018, and its Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 reports GitHub within its Intelligent Cloud segment; that filing gives Microsoft's address as Redmond, Washington and its state of incorporation as Washington. GitHub's terms of service name GitHub, Inc. as the contracting party under California law, and its privacy statement gives GitHub, Inc.'s postal address in San Francisco and names Microsoft as an affiliate. The privacy statement also lists GitHub B.V. in Amsterdam for some users; that does not change the U.S. control assessment.3412
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