What do people get AI agents to do with GitHub?

Mostly software & devops, science, security & hardware. There are 5 use cases on this page, each linked to the post where someone described it.

Which agents work with GitHub?

In these reports, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot. Most agents reach GitHub through an API connection, an MCP server or a browser.

What does an agent need to use GitHub?

An authorised connection to the GitHub account, scoped to the actions it needs. The GitHub API reference on One lists every action an agent can take and what each one requires.

App

GitHub

What people got AI agents to do inside GitHub, most often with Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot, and which agents they used. Each entry links to its source and lists every other app the agent touched.

GitHub API reference for agents

Often with

Discord

Use cases: 5
Agents used here: Claude Code Codex Grok Bot

Use cases in GitHub

Add IBM Db2 migration support with a teaching-hospital agent pipeline

Two Cockroach Labs engineers ran a pipeline of role-playing Claude agents on their MOLT migration tool; Db2 support landed in under two days for $4,172 of tokens, against nine months for Oracle in 2024.

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cockroachlabs.com · Oct 2026 · 2 accounts

Decompile a first-person shooter to byte-exact C++ with a fleet of agents

Maurice Heumann ran up to 16 Claude Code and Codex agents for three months, coordinated over GitHub issues and Discord, and reports 99% of an old shooter's functions reconstructed, 83% of them byte-exact.

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Discord

momo5502.com · Oct 2026 · 2 accounts

Build and launch a browser game in 72 hours with a team of Grok Bots

Three xAI Grok Bot engineers shipped a game, Thursday Arena, from an empty repo in a 72-hour livestream: an implementer-verifier bot pipeline landed 433 PRs and launch day saw about 4,000 games.

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GitHub · Sep 2026

Build a Mac menu bar app in Claude Code cloud sessions from written briefsNew

Alberto Arena had a local Claude Code write milestone briefs and review PRs while cloud sessions built his Laravel and NativePHP menu bar app test first; rules in AGENTS.md held, rules in briefs did not.

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medium.com · Oct 2026

Run sixteen always-on bots to coordinate coding threads and pull requestsNew

Alice Moore of Builder.io ran 16 GrokBot bots around her Claude Code and Codex threads for a week and merged 78 PRs, then quit after idle bots burned $100 over one weekend.

Grok Bot

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builder.io · Oct 2026

That is every GitHub use case so farNew ones are found across the web every hour. Seen an agent do something in GitHub?

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What do people get AI agents to do with GitHub?: Mostly software & devops, science, security & hardware. There are 5 use cases on this page, each linked to the post where someone described it.
Which agents work with GitHub?: In these reports, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot. Most agents reach GitHub through an API connection, an MCP server or a browser.
What does an agent need to use GitHub?: An authorised connection to the GitHub account, scoped to the actions it needs. The GitHub API reference on One lists every action an agent can take and what each one requires.