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GitHub Skills

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

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.

    8.3k 9.1k

  2. communicate-using-markdown Public template

    Organize ideas and collaborate using Markdown, a lightweight language for text formatting.

    1.1k 951

  3. hello-github-actions Public template

    Create a GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.

    858 1.1k

  4. github-pages Public template

    Create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.

    2.3k 6.5k

  5. test-with-actions Public template

    Create workflows that enable you to use Continuous Integration (CI) for your projects.

    259 141

  6. review-pull-requests Public template

    Collaborate and work together on GitHub.

    HTML 247 198

Repositories

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  • exercise-toolkit Public

    Toolkit to standardize and reuse common parts of Skills exercises

    5 MIT 1 0 2 Updated Apr 23, 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# 114 MIT 96 1 0 Updated Apr 23, 2025
  • introduction-to-secret-scanning Public template

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

    55 MIT 35 0 0 Updated Apr 23, 2025
  • action-text-variables Public

    Load a text file and replace mustache style variables. Returns modified text as an output for use in other actions.

    JavaScript 5 MIT 1 1 (1 issue needs help) 4 Updated Apr 21, 2025
  • getting-started-with-github-copilot Public template

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

    JavaScript 61 MIT 76 1 0 Updated Apr 16, 2025
  • build-applications-w-copilot-agent-mode Public template

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

    Shell 13 MIT 23 2 2 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • response-templates Public archive

    Templates for providing consistent responses in the GitHub Skills courses.

    2 2 0 0 Updated Apr 14, 2025
  • integrate-mcp-with-copilot Public template

    Learn how to use MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot

    JavaScript 11 MIT 5 6 1 Updated Apr 11, 2025
  • introduction-to-github Public template

    Get started using GitHub in less than an hour.

    8,288 MIT 9,081 8 17 Updated Mar 25, 2025
  • copilot-codespaces-vscode Public archive

    Develop with AI-powered code suggestions using GitHub Copilot and VS Code

    1,604 MIT 4,918 5 3 Updated Mar 14, 2025