GitHub Next

What is GitHub Next?

GitHub Next is a research and engineering team at GitHub that prototypes tools and technologies exploring the future of software development. The team investigates approaches such as agentic workflows, repository-native knowledge bases, and automated pull request maintenance. Outputs are published as research prototypes, work-in-progress projects, completed products, blog posts, and talks rather than a single commercial application.

What are the features of GitHub Next?

• Agentic workflow security primitive (Enclaves)

  Limits what agents learn about private repositories by restricting information shared between agents working across different repositories.
• Repository-native knowledge base (WikiKB)

  Provides an explicitly curated knowledge layer for humans and agents built on the GitHub repository wiki.
• Automated pull request maintenance (Evergreen)

  Fixes CI failures and merge conflicts while keeping pull request branches up to date with the base branch.
• Multiplayer agentic planning environment (Chopin)

  A real-time research prototype for collaborative planning among agents.
• Goal-driven automation loop (Autoloop)

  Automates research, development, or other tasks through a simple goal-driven loop.
• Contextual inference templating (Sparkle Pills)

  A flexible templating convention designed to support contextual inference.

What are the use cases of GitHub Next?

• Cross-repository agent collaboration

  Using enclaves to let agents work on different repositories while controlling what information they exchange.
• Pull request health maintenance

  Running Evergreen to automatically resolve CI failures and merge conflicts so pull requests remain mergeable.
• Shared documentation for humans and agents

  Deploying WikiKB as a curated knowledge base layer directly within a GitHub repository wiki.