Standardsby GlyphGitHub open standards support
Dev tools · 5 standards supported · 2 from adopter lists · read Nov 5, 2026
GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code.
AI agents1
Model Context Protocol
GitHub runs an MCP server, per the official MCP Registry and its own documentation.
Identity and sign-in3
SPIFFE
GitHub uses SPIFFE for workload identity, per the SPIRE adopters list.
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
GitHub acts as an OpenID Connect identity provider, per its own documentation.
FIDO2 and passkeys
GitHub supports passkey sign-in, per its own documentation.
Provenance and supply chain1
SPDX
GitHub produces SPDX SBOMs, per its own documentation.
About GitHub
GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. Popular games such as 2048 and Hextris have been known to be hosted on the platform.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2007
- Website
- github.com
No public evidence found for
- AI agents
- A2A
- Model APIs and runtimes
- OpenAI API, ONNX
- Telemetry and lineage
- OTel, Lineage
- Table formats
- Iceberg, Delta, Hudi
- File and memory formats
- Arrow, Parquet
- Query languages
- SQL:2023
- Provenance and supply chain
- C2PA, CycloneDX
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