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 Adopting GitHub's general platform best practices is crucial for effectively managing software development projects. These practices provide a structured framework that ensures projects are secure, maintainable, and scalable. By fostering a collaborative and efficient environment, these guidelines help organizations avoid common pitfalls, maintain high-quality codebases, and streamline project workflows. Ultimately, adhering to these best practices leads to successful and sustainable software projects.
 
+For enterprise governance architecture decisions — including structural components, user access models, organization strategies, enterprise policies, billing, repository governance, teams and roles, programmatic access, and audit logs — use the companion guide [Essentials of governance and administration with GitHub Enterprise]({{< relref "../governance-administration-essentials/index.md" >}}).
+This article remains focused on high-impact policy guardrails.
+
+For additional topic-specific guidance, see also:
+
+- [Repository rulesets best practices]({{< relref "../managing-repositories-at-scale/rulesets-best-practices.md" >}})
+- [Custom properties best practices]({{< relref "../managing-repositories-at-scale/custom-properties-best-practices.md" >}})
+
 ## Key design strategies and checklist
 
 Use these key strategies as a baseline to implement GitHub's best practices for governance:

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+## 2026 Q2
+
+- **New Content: [Governing agents in GitHub Enterprise](/library/governance/recommendations/governing-agents/)** - Published governance and policy guidance for managing GitHub Copilot agents across the enterprise, covering policy configuration, security boundaries, MCP server governance, and audit pipelines
+- **New Content: [Essentials of governance and administration with GitHub Enterprise](/library/governance/recommendations/governance-administration-essentials/)** - Published a comprehensive guide for enterprise governance and administration fundamentals, covering structural components, user access models, organization architecture strategies, policy baselines, and operational topics such as billing, repository governance, and audit logging

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