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GitHub Agent HQ: Native, Governed AI Agents in Flow

🤖 GitHub announced Agent HQ, a unified platform that makes coding agents native to the GitHub workflow. Over the coming months, partner agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cognition, and xAI will become available as part of paid Copilot subscriptions. The release introduces a cross‑surface mission control, VS Code planning and customizable AGENTS.md files, and an enterprise control plane with governance, metrics, and code‑quality tooling to manage agent-driven work.

GitHub Agent HQ: Native, Open Ecosystem & Controls

🚀 GitHub introduced Agent HQ, a native platform that centralizes AI agents within the GitHub workflow. The initiative will bring partner coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cognition, and xAI into Copilot subscriptions and VS Code. A unified "mission control" offers a consistent command center across GitHub, VS Code, mobile, and the CLI. Enterprise-grade controls, code quality tooling, and a Copilot metrics dashboard provide governance and visibility for teams.

Cursor AI IDE auto-runs tasks, exposing developers worldwide

⚠️ A default configuration in Cursor, an AI-powered fork of VS Code, automatically executes tasks when a project folder is opened because Workspace Trust is disabled. Oasis Security demonstrated that a malicious .vscode/tasks.json can run arbitrary commands without user action, risking credential theft and environment takeover. Cursor intends to keep the autorun behavior and advises enabling Workspace Trust manually or using a different editor for untrusted repos.