Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic dropped their respective coding models-GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6-both of which represented significant leaps in AI coding capabilities. GPT-5.3-Codex showed markedly higher performance on coding benchmarks than earlier models, while Opus 4.6 introduced a feature that lets users deploy autonomous AI agent teams that can tackle different aspects of complex projects simultaneously. Both models can write, test, and debug code with minimal human intervention-even iterating on their own work and refining features before presenting results to developers.
By implementing its own Model Context Protocol server, GitHub allows developers to automate workflows and build AI tools that interact seamlessly with GitHub features like repositories and issues.