GitHub publishes the Octoverse 2026 report
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GitHub published the Octoverse 2026 report — in the year to Sep 30, 2026 there were 17.9 billion pushes, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, while 34.3 billion commits and 1.3 billion merged pull requests were more than three times the figure of two years earlier, about 3.5 million a day. As of September 2026, pull requests opened by agents made up more than 40% of the total (17% in March) at 110 million, about six times the March figure, and 90% of them were merged within two weeks (83% in February). Among repositories created this year, those with an agent configuration file averaged 8 times as many commits as those without, and since June about 55% of all commits came from newly created repositories. There are more than 225 million developers, with 38.3 million in the United States, 32 million in India and 12.4 million in China.
Why it matters
These are numbers the operator counted itself, showing that the activity figures of a code hosting service used by people have tilted toward agents. Pull requests opened by agents rising from 17% to 40% in half a year, with 90% of them merged within two weeks, means the automatically generated work is going into the main line rather than staying an experiment. By language, AI involvement was detected in about 40-44% of merged pull requests in TypeScript, Python and Rust, against 21-34% for Java, C# and C++, so ecosystems are taking it up at different speeds. The counting basis and the method behind AI involvement detection, though, are the company's own definitions and there is no outside reproduction.
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Officialgithub.bloghttps://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents/Added in Week 45, 2026 · See that week
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