Profile Achievements
Unofficial catalog · Public preview

Every GitHub achievement, mapped.

The complete reference for profile badges: criteria, tiers, skin-tone variants, staff-only awards, historic 2021 artwork, and live unlock examples — because GitHub never published a full official list.

Browse active badges How they work
7Active achievements
3Staff-only Proxima
2Retired event badges

Note GitHub Achievements are in public preview and may change. Thresholds here are community-verified.

How it works

Achievements appear in the sidebar of a GitHub profile. Hover or click for the unlocked dialog, a short hint, and links to the events that earned it.

Where they show

Small badges in the profile sidebar. Click for the unlocked dialog and linked events.

Private events

Links stay hidden from anyone who cannot access the repository or organization. Private contributions can still count unless you turn that off.

Not the same as Highlights

Achievements are activity badges. Highlights (Pro, Campus Expert, …) are program badges under the bio.

Active

Earnable on a normal account today. Galaxy Brain still works in repository Discussions, not in GitHub Community.

Earnable now
Pair Extraordinaire

Pair Extraordinaire

Coauthored commits on a merged pull request (Co-authored-by)

Default1
Bronze10
Silver24
Gold48
Quickdraw

Quickdraw

Close an issue or pull request within 5 minutes of opening

Default1
Bronze—
Silver—
Gold—
Starstruck

Starstruck

Create a repository that reaches this many stars

Default16
Bronze128
Silver512
Gold4096
Galaxy Brain

Galaxy Brain

Have a Discussions reply marked as the accepted answer. Not awarded in GitHub Community since Feb 2024

Default2
Bronze8
Silver16
Gold32
Pull Shark

Pull Shark

Open a pull request that gets merged

Default2
Bronze16
Silver128
Gold1024
YOLO

YOLO

Merge your own pull request with no review (bot reviews often block it)

Default1
Bronze—
Silver—
Gold—
Public Sponsor

Public Sponsor

Sponsor an open source contributor via GitHub Sponsors

Default1
Bronze—
Silver—
Gold—

GitHub staff

Internal only. Awarded for GitHub’s own “Proxima” work. You cannot earn these through public activity.

Internal
Proxima Pioneer

Proxima Pioneer

M0 participant — contributed to the Proxima POC

@brannon

Proxima Staffshipper

Proxima Staffshipper

M8 participant — shipped a Proxima Staffship instance

@brannon

Proxima Staffuser

Proxima Staffuser

Team onboarded to Proxima

@timrogers

Retired

Event badges. If you earned them, they stay on your profile. Nobody new can unlock them.

Closed
Arctic Code Vault

Arctic Code Vault Contributor

You contributed to a public repo included in the 2020 GitHub Archive Program snapshot (2 Feb 2020), later stored in Svalbard.

Badge from Jul 2020.

Unreleased

Seen in GitHub’s asset pipeline and on a few staff/test profiles. No public launch date. Staff said they were an experimental rollout (Community #190842).

Experimental
Heart On Your Sleeve

Heart On Your Sleeve

React to something on GitHub with a heart emoji

Default?
Bronze16
Silver128
Gold?
Open Sourcerer

Open Sourcerer

Pull requests merged in multiple public repositories

Default?
Bronze8
Silver16
Gold64

Tiers

Some achievements upgrade in place. The badge on your profile is always the highest tier you hold. Labels use GitHub’s x2 / x3 / x4 colors.

x2 bronze
Bronze#F9BFA7
x3 silver
Silver#E1E4E4
x4 gold
Gold#FAE57E

Pair Extraordinaire

Coauthored commits on merged pull requests.

Default1
Bronze10
Silver24
Gold48

Starstruck

Stars on a repository you created.

Default16
Bronze128
Silver512
Gold4096

Galaxy Brain

Accepted answers in Discussions.

Default2
Bronze8
Silver16
Gold32

Pull Shark

Merged pull requests.

Default2
Bronze16
Silver128
Gold1024

Heart On Your Sleeve — unreleased

Heart reactions. Experimental; GitHub has not announced a public launch.

Default?
Bronze16
Silver128
Gold?

Open Sourcerer — unreleased

Pull requests merged across multiple public repositories.

Default?
Bronze8
Silver16
Gold64

Highlights

Highlights sit under achievements on the profile. They are program badges, not activity achievements.

Security Bug Bounty Hunter

Help find vulnerabilities through GitHub Security

Skin tones

Starstruck and Quickdraw follow Settings → Appearance → Emoji skin tone.

Default Light Light medium Medium Medium dark Dark
Starstruck Starstruck default Starstruck light Starstruck light medium Starstruck medium Starstruck medium dark Starstruck dark
Quickdraw Quickdraw default Quickdraw light Quickdraw light medium Quickdraw medium Quickdraw medium dark Quickdraw dark

Unlocked dialogs

Live examples of each badge. Click a profile to open GitHub’s unlock dialog.

Historic designs

From the Ingenuity announcement (19 Apr 2021) until the achievements expansion (9 Jun 2022), the first badges used different names and art.

- GitHub Sponsor
+ Public Sponsor
- Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor
+ Mars 2020 Contributor
GitHub Sponsor 2021

GitHub Sponsor

2021–2022 artwork

Arctic Code Vault 2021

Arctic Code Vault Contributor

2021–2022 artwork

Mars 2020 Helicopter 2021

Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor

2021–2022 artwork

Visibility & settings

Control what shows on your profile and what counts toward badges.

Hide achievements Profile settings → uncheck Show Achievements on my profile
Private contributions Same page → contribution & achievement visibility. Docs: manage visibility
Skin tone Appearance → Emoji skin tone
Official reference Profile reference (incomplete)

Mars 2020 qualifying repositories

The event has ended. Full official table: qualifying repositories.

Official list (repo · version)
torvalds/linux3.4 python/cpython3.9.2 nasa/fprime1.3 opencv/opencv4.5.1 numpy/numpy1.20.1 scipy/scipy1.6.1 matplotlib/matplotlib3.3.4 elastic/elasticsearch6.8.1 curl/curl7.72.0 twbs/bootstrap4.3.1 vuejs/vue2.6.10 pallets/flask1.1.1 psf/requests2.25.1 apache/lucene7.7.3 madler/zlib1.2.11

Plus dozens of Python/Java dependencies. See the official docs for tags.

Follow the news

GitHub does not keep a public changelog just for achievements. Staff posts land in Community, Blog, and Changelog.

GitHub Community

Official product forum for announcements, Q&A, and feedback. Open discussions

Search: achievements

Every Community thread that mentions achievements. Search now

Feedback #44972

Long-running thread on how badges work. Read thread

Heart / Open Sourcerer

Staff confirmed experimental rollout. #190842

Official public posts

Community #106536

Achievements turned off in GitHub Community because of spam. Other repos unaffected.

How to get pinged next time

  1. Watch github.blog/changelog (RSS available).
  2. Watch Community → Announcements.
  3. Search github.blog for “achievements”.
  4. Official docs: Earning Achievements.