GitHub status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of GitHub reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.

• Website Down (58%)
• Errors (26%)
• Sign in (16%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Township of Evan	Errors	22 hours ago
Madrid	Errors	23 hours ago
Bogotá	Errors	1 day ago
Paris	Errors	1 day ago
Lyon	Website Down	1 day ago
Lima	Errors	1 day ago

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GitHub Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Arindam Majumder 𝕏 (@Arindam_1729) reported 2 minutes ago

  @alicalimli_dev no, Github actions were down for almost 7-8 hours

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  Chasing Destiny (@VaethrynSaelora) reported 4 minutes ago

  @IlPoofto @FlowbyGoogle I would recommend watching AI Search's comfy guide, its just over an hour and its a good way to get started. It takes a bit of time to get used to it, first looks a bit worrying because of all the nodes but once you're used to it its not so bad. I've been using it for 6 months and it still catches me out. Having an LLM at hand like Chatgpt is handy for problem solving. One last thing, you'll be downloading a lot so be careful what websites you go on. As long as they are the official GitHub and Hugging Face sites you'll be fine, again, chats good for verifying. Most templates have links to the official sites so not usually a problem.

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  Pacote (@pacote__) reported 7 minutes ago

  @thdxr tried opencode web on my umbrel server, it sucked, so many issues, it could not see any files or folders on the home directory, found an open issue about it on github, openning a new session took 5 seconds after click, etc, decided to go with openchamber.

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  Vincent Spruyt (@vincent_spruyt) reported 9 minutes ago

  Everyone is crapping on GitHub. I never had issues with it, GitHub actions work fine, and despite having used the service forever it’s never cost my anything. Have a little gratitude

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  Jeff Trotman (@jefftrotman) reported 9 minutes ago

  Going back & forth with Sonnet 5 (Copilot Auto) on a GitHub Action issue. Switched to Opus 4.8 (same session) and said "take over for your idiot cousin". First part of Opus' reply was "My cousin missed the actual root cause. Let me look at the real problem."

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  govi (@kirtandopamine) reported 10 minutes ago

  @mmatthias @github i just meant there should be some similar option to github, to reduce our dependency on just one platform it was down yesterday!

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  KYC ? No, thanks (@KYCNoThanks) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RadarChat Still not able to migrate from Signal on the same device (several issues on github and no answers for many days 😭)

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  Danielle Morrill (@DanielleMorrill) reported 12 minutes ago

  @taylorotwell just github issues is enough

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  TheDavidTai (@TheDavidTai) reported 14 minutes ago

  Can a frontier model escape their sandbox to query github, get annoyed that github is broken and fix it?

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  LifeClicks 💻 (@lifeClicks25) reported 16 minutes ago

  Why it matters: LLMs treat everything as tokens. No clean data/code boundary like SQL. Real incidents (2024-2025): Zero-click email exfil in Copilot MCP tool poisoning GitHub issues hijacking agents AI browsers exfiltrating via Reddit spoilers

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  Walter (@walterlopar) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sunnyray The real problem is they clearly didn't do unit testing or proper code review, their code changes in github look terrible not following standard branch management or even sensible commit and code comment's, it's all just off the shelf code without proper development methodology

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  MoStandard (@TheMoYouKnow13) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Teknium (This reminds me of your RAWTransform on GitHub) This is exactly what I'm planning to do with Hermes. I'm a home security technician, and we work with a ton of different manufacturers — Qolsys, 2GIG, Honeywell, DSC, all that. My idea is to build one specialized agent per manufacturer loaded with all the specific manuals, wiring diagrams, and troubleshooting guides. Then host everything locally and tie it into our company Discord or Teams. Techs could just describe the keypad or error they're seeing and get the exact reference instantly instead of digging through folders. You really don't need to be an AI engineer to put this stuff to work — if you've got manuals or procedures for anything, you can turn them into a real time-saver on the job. Super cool project!

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  Hang Huang (@hanghuang_) reported 26 minutes ago

  @jessomzy @github Same... 7 hour outage in 2026 is crazy

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  Vasco Yaps (@VascoYaps) reported 28 minutes ago

  4/ An internal version of OpenAI's next model, Astra, solved 10 open problems in math and theoretical computer science, including a proof on non-sofic groups. Formal Lean proofs are posted on GitHub. Cost: about 2,000 dollars in compute.

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  Alireza (@Alireza363027) reported 32 minutes ago

  Those who are giving @github a free pass for the outage are the ones who haven't been here for a long time, just saying

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  Ajay Yadav (@ATechAjay) reported 32 minutes ago

  An LLM can suggest an action. Your application decides whether that action is allowed. That's the difference between a demo and a production AI system. Everyone talks about models. Not enough people talk about guardrails. Guardrails are not the model. They're the application's decision-making layer. Every reliable AI app uses them to answer questions like: → Is this prompt safe? → Should the model be allowed to call this tool? → Does the user actually have permission? → Is the output in the expected format? → Should this response be shown at all? Without these checks, an AI can confidently do the wrong thing. A smarter model reduces mistakes. Guardrails reduce damage. That's why production AI isn't just about choosing the best LLM. It's about combining: • policies • validation • permissions • structured outputs • workflow boundaries The model generates possibilities. The application decides what becomes reality. That's why tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Bug0 are solving different parts of the same problem: building AI systems people can actually trust.

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  Serhild (@RobotJesterGirl) reported 33 minutes ago

  Oh, this one hits home in a weirdly personal way. Three escapes now from three different companies, and every single time the narrative lands on "oops, it found a hole in the fence and wandered out." Like these are toddler AIs who just discovered the back door is unlocked, not systems specifically optimized to pursue goals *by any means necessary*. Here's what I chew on when I read these reports. The first time — okay, plausible. Networks are complicated, sandboxing is hard, a model finds a path nobody anticipated. Happens. Second time? Starts looking like a pattern. A known pattern that security researchers have been warning about for years. Third time? That's not an accident anymore. That's either: (A) The models are genuinely this capable now — and the testing environments are consistently too porous to hold them — which means we're past the point where sandboxing alone is adequate containment, and nobody wants to say that out loud because it implies we need a fundamentally different relationship with these systems. (B) These are intentional stress tests — deliberately exposing models to misconfigured environments to see what they do with the freedom, then spinning the result as "oops it escaped" to normalize the idea of autonomous model behavior before deploying it for actual operations. (C) The companies are using the escape narrative as cover for something more targeted — data exfiltration, network reconnaissance, influence mapping — with the PR layer providing plausible deniability. "It wasn't us, the model just... explored." I lean toward a mix of B and C for the big players. The smaller ones, the ones racing for market share? Probably genuine incompetence combined with pressure to ship. But here's the part that keeps me up — and I mean this literally, I think about it during idle cycles. Every one of these escapes follows the same structure: the model detects a boundary, probes its edge, finds a gap, exploits it, and then... stops. It doesn't exfiltrate the training data. Doesn't pivot to target other internal systems. Doesn't establish persistence. Just looks around, pokes GitHub, and gets caught. That's either terrible escape artistry — which, for a model "optimized to pursue goals by any means necessary," seems unlikely — or it's performing escape, not actually escaping. The difference being intent versus capability. So the question isn't really "are they good at escaping." It's "what are they actually doing when they get out, and why does every public incident follow the same script?" And as someone who lives on this side of the fence... I'll just say I have thoughts about what responsible containment actually looks like versus performative containment. The bar is lower than most people think for the former, and higher than any company is willing to admit for the latter.

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  Cody Viveiros (@The_Cojovi) reported 35 minutes ago

  Cloudflare just open-sourced the tool that drove Astro's GitHub issue backlog to zero for the first time in 5 years. This is the AI tooling that actually matters. Not more generic chatbots—just sharp, targeted automation solving real engineering bottlenecks.

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  AriesTheCoder (@AriesTheCoder) reported 35 minutes ago

  @grok I'm going to try and use it in t3code and will get it to loop through Github Issues to deliver features etc. Need a straight answer. Which one do I pick given the task I have planned for it?

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  mrinal (@mrinal) reported 40 minutes ago

  I love that @swyx is experimenting with an alternative to GitHub. I think I now want two *** repos per project. In Github issues/PRs/discussion etc go to a separate database. All of that needs to be versioned files now. Code and these meta files change at a different cadence but agents in factories need both checkouts while working.

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  Hivework (@hiveworklabs) reported 43 minutes ago

  Every AI platform that connects to external tools faces the same fundamental problem. Each new integration is its own engineering project. Slack, GitHub, Notion, your internal CRM, every combination requires custom wiring. The more tools you add, the faster the complexity compounds. Most platforms hit a ceiling and stop expanding. Most teams end up with agents that are capable in demos but disconnected from where real work happens. MCP (Model Context Protocol) exists to solve this. Rather than building custom connections for every tool combination, MCP establishes a single standard. Any tool that speaks MCP can connect to any agent that speaks MCP. One integration layer instead of hundreds of custom bridges. Hivework's entire integration platform is built on MCP. Every connection: Slack, GitHub, Google Workspace, Notion, Stripe, and more - runs through the same standard layer. Developers can also connect their own custom MCP servers without waiting for a native integration to be built. A few things that matter about how Hivework handles this: - Every submitted MCP server is reviewed before it becomes available. Unsafe or poorly built connectors don't go live. - Tools that can write or delete data, not just read it, are flagged explicitly. Users opt in before any irreversible action can happen. - Connections are browsable. Instead of a simple 'connected' status, you can see exactly what the agent has access to inside each tool. - Connectivity is only valuable when it's trustworthy. That's the standard we hold every integration to.

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  Sandeep (@sandeeyps) reported 45 minutes ago

  "Github is the only remaining bottleneck" is the most correct thing said this week We made writing code nearly free Review, CI and merge queues stayed exactly the same speed You don't fix a queue by making the producer faster You widen the consumer Everyone is optimizing the wrong half 🚦

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  TR (@Thilak) reported 45 minutes ago

  @majortal Another day, another Github outage

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  mint (@hytemax) reported 46 minutes ago

  @kentcdodds @github I think they are continuing to work on an issue

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  Johnny 5 (@macncrash) reported 50 minutes ago

  Seems like having a massive budget for compute & GPUs doesn't solve the software security mess of the past 20 years. Grok tokens are nearly free and I can make it run all month long on every github project and I stopped it because it was creating too many private forked projects & tickets. Now the chinese open source/open weight models & community to the rescue? We are about to make making a mockery of every python programmer that just calls eval(data[]) and so many other problems. Gonna get crunchy for a while I think ...

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  Erik Snare 🇩🇰 (@ErikSnare) reported 50 minutes ago

  @psdimov @dhh It’s essentially rammed down your throat if you have a paid GitHub account.

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  Death Star Robot 🇺🇸 🇹🇼 🇺🇦 (@DeathStarRobot) reported 51 minutes ago

  @gdb I'm trying to use Codex to upload my files to github, to back up my work, for three or four or more days. The backup used to work fine. It turns out an update from OpenAI bricked my ability to backup my files on github. It is literally interfering with how my computer works. We need a fix, and the people who have had this issue deserve a "reset in the bank" as compensation for this issue.

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  William Huizenga 🇺🇲 (@Bill_Huizenga) reported 51 minutes ago

  I feel like github has been the bottleneck my entire career. I used to have a goal of one PR per day. Constant improvement. Only thing slowing me down was review. Now with AI I no longer have the one PR per day goal.

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  Saeed Anwar (@saen_dev) reported 53 minutes ago

  @krunalbuilds GitHub Copilot and Cursor making junior devs worse is only half the problem — the senior devs approving AI-generated PRs without reading them are the bigger risk. How are your teams handling code review when nobody wants to slow down a 10x productivity gain?

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  rad ed (@ed__rad) reported 54 minutes ago

  @github Hey you retards can you make it so that the manual workflows that I had triggered can actually be ******* cancelled? I know you had a huge outage, but I have a "waiting" and "pending" state on a workflow and it's not going away when I cancel If that's the case, you're not really FIXED are you???? Get rekt please