Founder of a listed tool
Tom Preston-Werner
Co-founder, GitHub, named behind the GitHub Copilot CLI listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Tom 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
- Chris Wanstrath Co-founder, GitHub
- P. J. Hyett Co-founder, GitHub
- Scott Chacon Co-founder, GitHub
Questions
Who is Tom Preston-Werner?
Tom Preston-Werner co-founded GitHub in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and P. J. Hyett and was later its chief executive, leaving in 2014. He also created the avatar service Gravatar, the static site generator Jekyll, the TOML configuration format and the Semantic Versioning specification.
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 Tom'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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