Mastering GitHub: From First Commit to Autonomous Agents (Coursera Specialization)
2026-04-17
Nine courses covering GitHub end-to-end — from your first pull request through enterprise administration, AI-assisted development, security, governance, and autonomous testing agents. The full operator's curriculum for the platform that runs modern software.
What You Will Build
A production GitHub workflow: Codespaces-based dev environments, Actions pipelines, enterprise-grade security and identity controls, AI-augmented prompt engineering for code, governance for AI-generated contributions, and autonomous testing and refactoring agents.
Courses in This Specialization
- GitHub: From Zero to Pull Request — Git fundamentals, branches, PRs, and the collaborative review loop.
- GitHub: Codespaces, Actions, and Ecosystem Tools — Dev containers, GitHub Actions, Projects, and the extension marketplace.
- GitHub Enterprise Administration — Organization policies, SAML/SSO, audit logs, and enterprise rollouts.
- GitHub: Advanced Prompt Engineering for Code — Copilot, prompt design, and context management for code generation.
- GitHub Production Applications — Shipping production apps with GitHub as the platform.
- GitHub: Governing AI-Generated Code — Policies, review patterns, and provenance for AI contributions.
- GitHub: Security, Identity, and Access — Advanced Security, Dependabot, secrets scanning, and access models.
- GitHub: Evaluating and Integrating AI Models — Model evaluation, A/B testing, and integration patterns.
- GitHub: AI-Augmented Testing and Refactoring — Autonomous test generation, mutation testing, and AI-driven refactors.
Who This Is For
- Developers new to Git and GitHub who want a complete path
- Platform engineers rolling out GitHub at the enterprise level
- Staff engineers governing AI-generated code in their organization
Related Specializations
- AI Tooling — builds AI workflows on the GitHub foundation
- Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale — cloud context for GitHub-deployed systems