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GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate

Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience

Microsoft's GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also "experiencing degraded availability."

The problems began at 1340 UTC, when the company's status page reported "impacted performance for some GitHub services." This rapidly escalated to degraded performance across numerous services, including Issues – which was, appropriately enough, experiencing an issue of its own.

GitHub is investigating and has promised an update, but today's incident is only the latest in a string of disruptions that have left developer nerves frayed.

Earlier in August, GitHub's Actions automation platform and Pages hosting service experienced problems. In its May 2026 availability report, the company acknowledged that AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows were adding to the strain.

GitHub parent Microsoft boasted last year that AI was writing as much as 30 percent of the code in...

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