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GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (beta)

Demonstrate deep expertise in deploying, operating, integrating, and governing AI agents in production SDLC workflows, ensuring reliability, safety, and speed with GitHub as the control plane.

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Overview

You should have subject matter expertise in operating, integrating, supervising, and governing AI agents inside production-grade SDLC workflows and development environments, ensuring reliability, safety, and velocity using GitHub as the system of record and control plane.

Your responsibilities for this role include:

  • Operating agent workflows inside the SDLC
  • Supervising autonomous behavior with GitHub controls
  • Evaluating and tuning agent outputs using scans and artifacts
  • Configuring custom agents
  • Coordinating multi-agent execution safely

You work closely with architects, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, application developers, product managers, and security engineers to develop, deploy, operate, and manage agents that operate within the GitHub platform.

You should have experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), workflows in GitHub and controls, and code quality, security, and review practices. You should also have experience with coding agents including GitHub Copilot, MCP servers and agent customization such as custom instructions, custom agents, tools, and Copilot setup steps.

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Important

Learn more about the beta exam GH-600.

The GitHub Agentic AI Developer exam is currently in beta. As a result, you will not receive your results immediately. Scores will be released approximately eight weeks after the beta period concludes. Thank you for participating and helping us improve the certification!

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You will have 120 minutes to complete this assessment.

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Assessed on this exam

  • Domain 1: Prepare agent architecture and SDLC processes (15–20%)
  • Domain 2: Implement Tool Use and Environment Interaction (20–25%)
  • Domain 3: Manage Memory, State, and Execution (10–15%)
  • Domain 4: Perform Evaluation, Error Analysis, and Tuning (15–20%)
  • Domain 5: Orchestrate Multi-Agent Coordination (15–20%)
  • Domain 6: Implement Guardrails and Accountability (10–15%)

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Exam GH-600 study guide

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