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GitHub hosts Git repositories alongside documented services for automation, packages and cloud development environments. The boundary between a portable repository and a platform-shaped workflow is examined in R-006.

Documented surface
Repositories · Actions · Packages · Codespaces
Category
Source & Developer Platform
Status
Evidence review pending
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Status of this profile

This profile is currently a shell. An earlier version of this page carried numerical concentration and reversibility indices, a dependency tier and a review date. None of those were produced by a documented, reproducible methodology, so they have been removed rather than restated in softer language.

What remains is descriptive: the platform name, its broad category and the product surfaces the vendor publicly documents. Substantive platform-specific findings will be published here only when each is supported by a traceable primary source.

Evidence review pending — no findings published.

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What a dependency profile examines

System Drift documents the surfaces on which dependency can form. It does not measure any organization's dependency on a vendor.

  • Identity and control surface
    Where authentication, authorization and administrative authority are exercised.
  • Workflow surface
    The everyday operational activity carried out inside the platform.
  • Data surface
    What organizational data is held, and in what form it can be extracted.
  • Integration surface
    The connections between the platform and the rest of the software estate.
  • Governance surface
    Where policy is authored and where compliance posture is read from.
  • Portability mechanisms
    Documented export, migration and interoperability paths the vendor publishes.
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Questions only an organization can answer

Diagnostic, not advisory. No scores are attached.

  • Which of these surfaces does this organization actually use, and which does it not?
  • Where is configuration stored as exportable artefacts, and where does it exist only in the platform interface?
  • Which documented export or migration mechanisms does the vendor publish for the surfaces in use?
  • What would have to be reconstructed elsewhere before normal operation could resume?
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Editorial note

This profile is not a product review, a buyer's guide, a feature comparison or a recommendation. It makes no claim that GitHub is good or bad.

System Drift publishes no numerical dependency score, dependency tier or impact rating for any platform. Dependency is organization-specific, and no reproducible measurement of it exists here. View methodology →

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