Governing AI Agents: Boosting Engineering Productivity with Secure Automation in GitHub Enterprise

The rapid proliferation of AI agents in enterprise codebases is fundamentally transforming software development. From GitHub Copilot and its code review counterpart to third-party tools like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex, these agents are now opening pull requests, running tests, and pushing changes at unprecedented speeds. In many organizations, AI agents already rank among the top contributors by PR volume, promising significant boosts to engineering productivity . However, this speed and