Founder of a listed tool
Chris Wanstrath
Co-founder, GitHub, named behind the GitHub Copilot CLI listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Chris builds
GitHub Copilot CLI C · Agent harnesses
GitHub's coding agent for the terminal, built on the same agent harness as Copilot cloud agent (formerly Copilot coding agent), which works in GitHub Actions and opens pull requests.
Co-founder, GitHub, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- P. J. Hyett Co-founder, GitHub
- Scott Chacon Co-founder, GitHub
- Tom Preston-Werner Co-founder, GitHub
Questions
Who is Chris Wanstrath?
Chris Wanstrath co-founded GitHub in 2008 and was its chief executive until 2012 and again from 2014 to October 2018, the year Microsoft acquired it. Before GitHub he worked at CNET Networks on GameSpot, and he created the Atom text editor, the Resque job queue and the Mustache templating language.
What does GitHub (Microsoft) make?
Anchor Terminal lists GitHub Copilot CLI from GitHub (Microsoft). GitHub's coding agent for the terminal, built on the same agent harness as Copilot cloud agent (formerly Copilot coding agent), which works in GitHub Actions and opens pull requests.
How are Chris's tools graded?
GitHub Copilot CLI is graded C, 58.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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