GitHub Octoverse 2026: AI agents triple commits to 7.38B per month
At GitHub Universe, the 2026 Octoverse report showed that AI-agent-driven activity has tripled merged pull requests to 220 million per month and commits to 7.38 billion per month, with most growth in the second half of the year. GitHub has added 4 million CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 to support this growth, and new repository creation has doubled to 30.3 million per month.
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack : GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth — GitHub now sees 7.4 billion commits a month, driven largely by AI agents, and is adding 4 million CPU cores and rearchitecting its platform to keep up.
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GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the impact of agentic engineering on GitHub. In 2026, merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month. Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, with most of that increase in the second half of this year. New repository rate doubled this year, to 30.3 million per month. The report includes new numbers by industry, and breaks out numbers for repositories that involve "interoperability or reverse engineering". The methodology section includes notes about how they did this: Top countries by pushes to public repositories, adjusted by profile location . Pushes from each country were summed across the Octoverse year. To adjust for biases caused by VPN usage, LLM classification was used to extra
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