Nothing to fear here 🧙 [Repositories Check-in]

[queenofcorgis]

We aren’t ghosting you for this month’s updates as we have so many treats to share 👻. Grab the latest blogs, upskilling, and outstanding community citizens below.

Wall of Fame 🤩 : These folks make our Repositories category so great!

• @amgartendev: Not only did they quickly solve why a member couldn’t find a specific type of reporting in their settings, they went back and updated their comment to include more details so anyone else facing this would be able to solve. Appreciate you making the community a more helpful place!
• @girishlade111: For their discussion on leveraging repository insights and contribution analytics for engineering metrics and team performance, they asked some specific questions and added a ton of context. If you have insights as a team who have built healthy engineering metrics programs on top of GitHub analytics, join their discussion.
• @abrahamVado: For going above and beyond with helping restore an overwritten repository - thanks for paying your experience forward ♥️.

Hacktoberfest 🎃 : Build your open source skills with our tips and challenges

• We’re celebrating Hacktoberfest with content all month to make you a contributions pro. This is a bonus treat on top of the regular celebration! Check out our main discussion post to get all the challenges and tips.
• Write the docs challenge: This week, we've conjured up some practice to help you get in the groove of writing how things work. Join the challenge to put your documentation skills to the test.
• Essential Git commands tips: Read our discussion for five commands to get you out of any haunted house or open source project!

📚 Rousing Reads and Beyond: GitHub-produced goodies to upskill YOU 🍭

• 10 Golden Rules for GitHub APIs: Read the tale of a CI Bot that failed, how it was fixed, and the lessons learned along the way from @nikhil-thampi.
• Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects: GitHub Copilot and VS Code teams, along with the Microsoft Open Source Program Office (OSPO), sponsored these projects that provide new frameworks, tools, and assistants to unlock AI-native workflows, agentic tooling, and innovation. Read more.
• Getting better results from Copilot Coding Agent: @mannyb325 shares how you can be more productive in their blog.

Happy Hacktober! What open source projects are you contributing to? Give them a shout in the comments.

[queenofcorgis]

We've got more members to thank in this month's check-in, join the discussion to share your thanks!