According to Octoverse 2026 data, AI agents opened 110 million pull requests on GitHub in September 2026, accounting for more than 40% of the total, up from 17% in March. In the twelve months ending September 30, GitHub recorded 17.9 billion code pushes, 34.3 billion commits, and 1.3 billion merged pull requests. Agent-involved pull requests modified multiple files 87% of the time, and 90% were merged within two weeks, compared with 79% and 86% for traditional pull requests. Meanwhile, 55% of monthly active GitHub Copilot users now use agentic features, while the use of cloud-hosted autonomous agents grew 230% year over year.
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