GitHub Engineering
https://github.blog/Why it matters: This event fosters innovation and skill development in game creation, encouraging engineers to experiment with new technologies and collaborative workflows. It's an excellent opportunity to build a portfolio project and engage with a global developer community.
- •GitHub's annual Game Off 2025 game jam has announced "WAVES" as its theme, challenging developers to create games based on this concept.
- •Participants must develop their games and submit them to itch.io by December 1, 2025, with source code hosted in a public GitHub repository.
- •The jam encourages diverse interpretations of the "WAVES" theme, offering various conceptual ideas from physics puzzlers to rhythm games.
- •Developers can work solo or in teams, using any programming languages, game engines (e.g., Godot, Unity, Bevy), or AI-assisted tools.
- •Games will be evaluated by participants across categories like gameplay, graphics, audio, innovation, and theme interpretation.
- •The event is designed to be beginner-friendly, welcoming both experienced and first-time game developers to explore game creation.
Why it matters: This article details GitHub's robust offline evaluation pipeline for its MCP Server, crucial for ensuring LLMs like Copilot accurately select and use tools. It highlights how systematic testing and metrics prevent regressions and improve AI agent reliability in complex API interactions.
- •GitHub's MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables LLMs to interact with APIs and data, forming the basis for Copilot workflows.
- •Minor changes to MCP tool descriptions or configurations significantly impact an LLM's ability to select correct tools and pass arguments.
- •An automated offline evaluation pipeline is crucial for validating changes, preventing regressions, and improving LLM tool-use performance.
- •The pipeline utilizes curated benchmarks containing natural language inputs, expected tools, and arguments to test model-MCP pairings.
- •The evaluation process comprises three stages: fulfillment (recording model invocations), evaluation (computing metrics), and summarization (reporting).
- •Key evaluation metrics focus on both correct tool selection (using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score) and accurate argument provision.
Why it matters: Agent HQ unifies diverse AI coding agents directly within GitHub, streamlining development workflows. This integration provides a central command center for agent orchestration, enhancing productivity, code quality, and control over AI-assisted processes for engineers.
- •GitHub introduces Agent HQ, an open ecosystem integrating various AI coding agents (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.) directly into the GitHub platform.
- •Agents will be native to the GitHub workflow, accessible via a paid GitHub Copilot subscription, enhancing existing development processes.
- •A new "mission control" provides a central hub to assign, steer, and track multiple agents, streamlining complex tasks.
- •Enhanced VS Code integration allows for planning and customizing agent behavior, improving developer control.
- •Enterprise features include agentic code review, a control plane for AI governance, and a metrics dashboard to monitor AI impact.
- •The initiative aims to orchestrate specialized agents for parallel task execution, leveraging familiar GitHub primitives like Git and pull requests.