GitHub’s Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises’ biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control

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GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don’t need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them.

At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer platform announced Agent HQ. The new architecture transforms GitHub into a unified control plane for managing multiple AI coding agents from competitors including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and xAI. Rather than forcing developers into a single agent experience, the company is positioning itself as the essential orchestration layer beneath all of them.

Agent HQ represents GitHub’s attempt to apply its collaboration platform approach to AI agents. Just as the company transformed