GitHub Octoverse 2026: agentic engineering's impact on code
In brief
- Merged pull requests tripled in less than a year, reaching 220 million per month.
- Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, with a sharp increase in 2026.
- New repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month.
GitHub unveiled its Octoverse 2026 report at GitHub Universe. According to Jay Parikh, 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 a notable acceleration in the second half of 2026. The rate of new repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month.
The report also breaks down data by industry and highlights repositories involving interoperability or reverse engineering. The methodology uses multilingual embedding models to classify repositories by NAICS sector and classification techniques to adjust for geographical biases from VPN usage.
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