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Join rotating hosts from GitHub’s Developer Advocacy team - including Andrea Griffiths, Cassidy Williams, Kedasha Kerr, and more for the latest in developer, open source, and GitHub news.

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GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine - GitNexus is a client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser. Drop in a GitHub repo or ZIP file, and get an interactive knowledge graph wit a built in Graph RAG Agent. Perfect for code exploration

  • Updated Apr 27, 2026
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Copilot CLI update: chronicle, plugins, and fleet mode

GitHub Checkout

In this episode of GitHub Checkout, we sit down with Copilot CLI Product Manager Ryan Hecht to explore the latest experimental features. We cover the plugin marketplace, the /chronicle slash command for self-healing prompts, and how to run Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3 simultaneously. We also walk through how /fleet mode and autopilot can handle massive refactoring tasks while you step away.

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used most often to style and improve upon the appearance of views.

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Octobox

Untangle your GitHub notifications

Octobox helps you manage your notifications in the same way Gmail helps you manage your email. Built for developer workflows centred around GitHub issues, pull requests, comments and commits, Octobox makes sure you never miss another mention or misplace another issue.

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Renovate

Mend Renovate | Dependency Update Automation

Renovate: an open-source tool which automatically creates pull requests for all types of dependency updates. Includes crowdsourced test and package adoption data are used to flag potentially risky updates and enable auto-merging for those that meet user-defined conditions.

How Renovate works:

  • Scans your repos to detect dependencies (wide package manager support)
  • Checks if any newer versions exist
  • Raises PRs for available updates