GitHub Octoverse 2026: over 40% of pull requests now start with an agent, up from 17% in March; pushes hit 17.9B
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcegithub.blog · Opens in a new tabGitHub's Octoverse 2026 report says developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined. Commits across public and private repos reached 34.3 billion and merged pull requests reached 1.3 billion. As of September, more than 40% of pull requests start with an agent, up from 17% in March. Public contributions reached 2.5 billion, more than double last year's total. GitHub reports 225 million developers, with the United States at 38.3 million and India at 32.0 million.
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GitHub's Octoverse 2026 report says developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined. Commits across public and private repos reached 34.3 billion and merged pull requests reached 1.3 billion. As of September, more than 40% of pull requests start with an agent, up from 17% in March. Public contributions reached 2.5 billion, more than double last year's total. GitHub reports 225 million developers, with the United States at 38.3 million and India at 32.0 million.
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- Developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined.
- As of September, more than 40% of pull requests start with an agent, up from 17% in March.
- Among new repos, those with an agent configuration file logged eight times as many commits as those without one.
- GitHub reports more than 225 million developers, with the United States at 38.3 million and India at 32.0 million.
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GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report says developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, and merged pull requests more than tripled to 1.3 billion. By September more than 40% of pull requests started with an agent's first draft, up from 17% in March, and new repos with agent config files logged 8x the commits. Figures are GitHub's own.
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