Universe 2025 keynote
Kyle Daigle · Oct 28, 2025 · 1h 0m · San Francisco, California
Summary
GitHub's 2025 keynote made GitHub the home for coding agents: Agent HQ brings coding agents from partners such as Anthropic and OpenAI next to Copilot, managed from a single Mission Control, with custom agents, deeper MCP support in VS Code, Copilot code review and metrics, and an enterprise control plane for agents.
Key themes: AI coding, Agents, Governance · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Mission Control is a single view to assign, steer and track agent sessions across projects5:38
- 2Custom agents let teams tailor Copilot for tasks like documentation or test-driven development8:26
- 3Agent HQ will bring coding agents such as Claude and Codex onto GitHub alongside Copilot15:25
- 4Partner agents arrive in Agent HQ for Copilot Pro+ users later in the year26:21
- 5MCP is fully integrated in VS Code, so custom agents can use tools like the Playwright MCP server33:08
- 6Copilot code review gives a first pass on pull requests aimed at real issues, not nits38:52
- 7An enterprise control plane will govern Copilot and, in future, all of Agent HQ from one admin interface45:39
Announced
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Agent HQPartner coding agents on GitHub, later in 2025 | Coming |
| Mission ControlOne view for agent sessions | Announced |
| Custom agentsTailored Copilot agents | Announced |
| Copilot Metrics dashboardUsage metrics for Copilot Business and Enterprise | Preview |
| Copilot control planeEnterprise-wide admin for Copilot and agents | Announced |
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| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2024 | GitHub Universe 2024Thomas Dohmke · 50m · 5 announcedAI coding, Models, Agents | AI coding, Models, Agents | OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini became available to Copilot users in Copilot Chat | 5 |
About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Va0_KILi4
- Kyle DaigleCOO, GitHub
Companies named: Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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