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

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