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Introduction to GitHub Get started using GitHub in less than an hour. Welcome People use GitHub to build some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you’re visualizing data or building a new game, there’s a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can help you do it even better. GitHub Skills’ “Introduction to GitHub” exercise guides you through everything you need to start contributing in less than an hour. Who is this for: New developers, new GitHub users, and students. What you'll learn: We'll introduce repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests. What you'll build: We'll make a short Markdown file you can use as your profile README. Prerequisites: None. This exercise is a great introduction for your first day on GitHub. How long: This exercise takes less than one hour to complete. In this exercise, you will: Create a branch Commit a file Open a pull request Merge your pull request How to start this exercise Simply copy the exercise to your account, then give your favorite Octocat (Mona) about 20 seconds to prepare the first lesson, then refresh the page. [](https://github.com/new?templateowner=skills&templatename=i
| Stars | 10,549 |
| Forks | 19,074 |
| Category | AI Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 54.8367340447095/100 |
| Open Issues | 42 |
| Last Updated | 2026-06-22 |
| Created | 2022-01-06 |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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introduction-to-github is Get started using GitHub in less than an hour.. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 10.5k GitHub stars.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the introduction-to-github GitHub repository at github.com/skills/introduction-to-github. The project has 10.5k stars and 19074 forks, indicating an active community.
introduction-to-github is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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