Welcome to the GitHub Achievements repository! Here you'll find everything you need to know about GitHub Badges, including how to earn them, what they mean, and more. GitHub introduced badges to celebrate various milestones and contributions made to open source projects and the platform.

GitHub offers a variety of badges to celebrate your contributions, engagement, and community-building efforts. These badges can be displayed on your GitHub profile and are available based on different activities like merging pull requests, creating discussions, and much more.

To earn badges, you need to:

• Contribute to Open Source: Create or contribute to repositories that have significant community engagement.
• Engage in Community Activities: Participate in discussions, close issues, and co-author commits.
• Showcase Unique Skills: Achieve milestones such as merging pull requests or providing helpful answers.

There are various badges, each representing a different achievement. They come in different colors and levels, from default to gold, depending on the frequency or scale of your activity. Additionally, some badges come in multiple skin tones to align with GitHub's emoji skin tone preferences.

You can opt to show or hide these achievements on your GitHub profile. By default, they are visible to anyone who visits your public profile. If you prefer not to display them, you can modify this setting in your GitHub Profile Settings.

Below is a list of some of the key GitHub Badges you can earn and how to get them:

Badge	Name	How to Earn	Levels (Default, Bronze, Silver, Gold)
	Heart On Your Sleeve	(TBD)
	Open Sourcerer	(TBD)
	Starstruck	Created a repository with many stars	16 (Bronze), 128 (Silver), 512 (Gold)
	Quickdraw	Closed an issue/pull request within 5 minutes of opening	1 (Default)
	Pair Extraordinaire	Coauthored a merged commit	1 (Default), 10 (Bronze), 24 (Silver), 48 (Gold)
	Pull Shark	Opened a merged pull request	2 (Default), 16 (Bronze), 128 (Silver), 1024 (Gold)
	Galaxy Brain	Answered a discussion and got an accepted answer	2 (Default), 8 (Bronze), 16 (Silver), 32 (Gold)
	YOLO	Merged a pull request without a review	1 (Default)
	Public Sponsor	Sponsored an open-source contributor through GitHub Sponsors	1 (Default)

GitHub badges can also be customized with skin tone preferences for certain achievements. Your skin tone preference impacts how certain badges will appear on your profile.

You can set your preferred skin tone in your GitHub Appearance Settings. Below are some badges that support skin tone versions:

Badge	Name	Skin Tone Versions
	Starstruck	👋 👋🏻 👋🏼 👋🏽 👋🏾 👋🏿
	Quickdraw	👋 👋🏻 👋🏼 👋🏽 👋🏾 👋🏿

In addition to standard badges, GitHub offers special highlight badges to mark participation in certain exclusive programs:

	GitHub Pro	Use GitHub Pro
	Developer Program Member	Register for the GitHub Developer Program
	Security Advisory Credit	Contribute to a security advisory accepted to the GitHub Advisory Database
	Security Bug Bounty Hunter	Participate in GitHub's Security Bug Bounty program
	GitHub Campus Expert	Join the GitHub Campus Program

Some badges are no longer available or can no longer be earned due to the retirement of specific programs:

Badge	Name	How to Get
	Mars 2020 Contributor	Contributed to the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission repository
	Arctic Code Vault Contributor	Contributed to the 2020 GitHub Archive Program

For more details on how to manage and customize your GitHub profile with badges, check out the official GitHub documentation on Displaying Badges.

Thanks to Kai, Thinkright for the high quality images and made big inspiration!

GitHub Badges are a fun way to showcase your contributions and milestones on the platform. By earning badges, you can highlight your involvement in the GitHub community, whether through code contributions, pull requests, sponsorship, or answering discussions.

Happy coding, and keep achieving! 🏆