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GitHub Skills

Learn how to use GitHub with interactive courses designed for beginners and experts.
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Advance your GitHub journey

Learn how to use GitHub with interactive courses designed for beginners and experts.

  • Learning should be fun: There are no simulations or boring tutorials here, just hands-on lessons created by GitHub and taught with GitHub Actions.
  • Real projects: Learn new skills while working in your own copy of a real project.
  • Helpful bot: GitHub Actions provides instructions and feedback throughout your journey.
  • Real workflow: Everything happens with real GitHub features, such as Issues, Actions, and Codespaces.

Get started building your own courses with our GitHub Skills Quickstart Guide. 🌟

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  1. introduction-to-github Public template

    Get started using GitHub in less than an hour.

    8.7k 10.1k

  2. getting-started-with-github-copilot Public template

    Learn, build, debug, and ship faster than ever with your favorite AI pair programmer.

    JavaScript 110 133

  3. integrate-mcp-with-copilot Public template

    Learn how to use MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot

    JavaScript 20 13

  4. introduction-to-repository-management Public template

    Learn the basics of several GitHub features that can help support a collaborative, friendly, and healthy project.

    JavaScript 6 4

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  • secure-code-game Public template

    A GitHub Security Lab initiative, providing an in-repo learning experience, where learners secure intentionally vulnerable code.

    Python 2,290 MIT 263 0 1 Updated May 21, 2025
  • exercise-toolkit Public

    Toolkit to standardize and reuse common parts of Skills exercises

    7 MIT 5 0 3 Updated May 19, 2025
  • expand-your-team-with-copilot Public template

    Let Copilot coding agent tackle your issues directly on GitHub. No coding environment needed.

    JavaScript 2 MIT 0 0 0 Updated May 19, 2025
  • action-keyphrase-checker Public
    TypeScript 0 MIT 1 0 3 Updated May 19, 2025
  • copilot-codespaces-vscode Public archive
    1,715 MIT 5,227 5 2 Updated May 14, 2025
  • exercise-template Public template

    <<Not a course>> A template to make course templates. Search and replace "TBD".

    155 MIT 186 3 1 Updated May 14, 2025
  • introduction-to-repository-management Public template

    Learn the basics of several GitHub features that can help support a collaborative, friendly, and healthy project.

    JavaScript 6 MIT 3 1 0 Updated May 12, 2025
  • introduction-to-secret-scanning Public template

    Enable secret scanning to identify plain-text credentials and prevent them from being written to your repository

    64 MIT 40 1 0 Updated May 9, 2025
  • secure-repository-supply-chain Public template

    Secure your supply chain, understand dependencies in your environment, know about vulnerabilities in those dependencies and patch them

    C# 120 MIT 100 3 3 Updated May 9, 2025
  • build-applications-w-copilot-agent-mode Public template

    GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens - Building applications with GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

    Shell 25 MIT 37 3 3 Updated May 8, 2025
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