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Career growth Rediscovering joy in learning: Jason Lengstorf on the state of development We sit down with Jason Lengstorf on the GitHub Podcast, where he shares his perspective on education, AI, open source, and more. Andrea Griffiths · August 26, 2025 Application security Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections When a chat conversation is poisoned by indirect prompt injection, it can result in the exposure of GitHub tokens, confidential files, or even the execution of arbitrary code without the user’s explicit consent. In this blog post, we’ll explain which VS Code features may reduce these risks. Michael Stepankin · August 25, 2025 AI & ML Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities Learn Model Context Protocol by building a turn-based game server that shows how to extend GitHub Copilot with custom tools, resources, and prompts. Chris Reddington · August 22, 2025 Company news Explore the best of GitHub Universe: 9 spaces built to spark creativity, connection, and joy See what’s happening at Universe 2025, from experimental dev tools and career coaching to community-powered spaces. Save $400 on your pass with Early Bird pricing. Jeimy Ruiz · August 21, 2025 We do newsletters, too Discover tips, technical guides, and best practices in our biweekly newsletter just for devs. Your email address * Your email address Subscribe Yes please, I’d like GitHub and affiliates to use my information for personalized communications, targeted advertising and campaign effectiveness. See the GitHub Privacy Statement for more details. Subscribe Latest View all Maintainers Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership. Abigail Cabunoc Mayes · August 20, 2025 News & insights Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub Delegate coding tasks to Copilot and track progr