Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents

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GitHub Staff·@github October 28, 2026 | 24 minutes Share: Developers pushed code to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined. Behind that number are developers building what interests them and what their communities need. In Nepal, one developer built a flood bulletin on GitHub Pages with verified information on roads, rescue, weather, and power. It has since grown into Gati, a Nepali-first relay of official disaster alerts that runs on GitHub Pages and Actions. Elsewhere, developers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating software designed to run programs aboard spacecraft, and fans built open-source firmware that lets people customize their e-readers. Curiosity, aimed in every direction, at a scale GitHub hasn’t seen before. That growth happened quickly. Partway through the year, activity on GitHub bent sharply upward, just as agents went from something developers were trying out to something they were working alongside. Developers picked from more models than ever and built in industries we are highlighting in this report for the first time, from health care to agriculture. Octoverse is our chance to step back and look at the whole picture. This year, that picture is bigger than ever. Here is what stood out most: More AI, more of everything. Among repositories created this year, the average repo with an agent configuration file logged eight times as many commits as the average new repo without one. As of September, developers start more than 40% of pull requests with an agent. In March, it was 17%. For a growing share of work, the first move is now directing an agent, and review is how developers shape what comes back. Developers move fast on model choice. In September, 61% of GitHub Copilot users used more than one model, and requests spread across general purpose, deep reasoning and planning, and fast and lightweight models Builders are showing up from every field. This year, for the first time, we’re sharing our view of public repositories by industry. Repos serving mining, construction, health care, and agriculture have each grown several times over since 2022. Underneath it all, AI models and the harnesses built around them have advanced over the past year, and developers have more to choose from. Growth is moving quickly: one year into last year’s five-year developer growth projections, every country we projected has already closed at least a fifth of its distance to 2030, and our own forecasting models no longer agree on where it will go next. The year developers set a new pace This year was all about momentum. Developers pushed code changes to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined. Commits across all repo types (public and private) climbed even faster to 34.3 billion, more than three times where they stood two years ago. Merged pull requests more than tripled to 1.3 billion over the same period, an average of 3.5 million a day. Agents were one of the tools developers leaned on hardest this year, pulling them deeper into daily work. Among repos created this year, the average repo with an agent configuration file logged eight times as many commits as the average new repo without one, sign that individuals and teams building with agents from day one are moving at a markedly different pace. Developers also relied on automations to keep projects moving. GitHub Actions ran a job 1,440 times every second this year. This equals 124 million times a day and is more than three times last year’s total. Developers merged more than 30 million Dependabot pull requests to keep dependencies current and reduce the use of known vulnerabilities, about double 2025’s pace. Our telemetry shows activity climbing steadily from January, then surging around June, as if developers everywhere saw new possibilities at once. Right around then, a cluster of industry-wide shifts landed: better underlying models, the harnesses and tools built around them