GitHub Embraces the Coding Agent Competition With Agent HQ

Disclosure: GitHub paid the author’s air and lodging expenses for GitHub Universe.

SAN FRANCISCO — At its Universe 2025 conference here, GitHub today launched a slew of updates that will bring third-party coding agents directly into GitHub.

Thanks to this, developers will be able to see their agents work and see their chain of thought, steer them as needed and approve the code they generated from a single place. Later this year, this new feature will support Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Jules and OpenAI’s Codex, as…