GitHub Octoverse 2026: 220M PRs merged monthly as agents drive growth
10/29/2026 — 10/29, 01:20·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- At its Universe conference GitHub shared Octoverse 2026 figures: merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million a month, while…
Latest turnGitHub unveiled its Octoverse 2026 report at GitHub Universe: merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million per month, and monthly commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion, with most of the growth coming in the second half of the year. Writing from the event, Simon Willison called the numbers a stark picture of how agentic engineering is reshaping GitHub.
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GitHub unveiled its Octoverse 2026 report at GitHub Universe: merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million per month, and monthly commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion, with most of the growth coming in the second half of the year. Writing from the event, Simon Willison called the numbers a stark picture of how agentic engineering is reshaping GitHub.
Simon WillisonAI score 64GitHub says it now sees 7.4 billion commits a month, up from 2.9 billion in August, with the growth driven largely by AI agents. The company has added 4 million CPU cores and 160PB of storage this year and is rearchitecting its platform to keep up.
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