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3.1%
of 639 commits were committed by an AI agent — a floor, not an estimate
3.1% agent · top contributor 25%15 contributors
org-wide

Adoption is broad. Many contributors are committing agent-authored work, which is what a real organisational rollout looks like.

20
agent commits
619
human commits
15
agent contributors
25%
largest contributor

Assisted or autonomous

20assisted
0autonomous

Assisted — a developer’s identity authored the commit and the agent added itself as co-author. The agent ran git commit during a working session, with a person there. Autonomous — a bot identity is the author, no human in the loop. Across the whole index, 93.7% of agent commits are assisted.

Agent share by month

Feb26
Mar26
Apr26
May26
Jun26
Jul26
Aug26

Peak month: 5.4%. Bars are scaled to that peak, not to 100%.

Which agents

GitHub CopilotGitHub162.5%
Claude CodeAnthropic40.6%

Verify it yourself

Sample commits that matched. Every one links to GitHub — check the trailers.

  • deed9c0dGH-49237: [R] Deprecate Feather reader and writer (#49276)GitHub Copilot
  • 3d771d08GH-50481: [C++] Fix CSV reader mis-parsing rows with an embedded NUL byte GitHub Copilot
  • 07c40ba1GH-39961: [C++][Python] Propagate CSV parse delimiter to write options (#4GitHub Copilot
  • 2a526c1eGH-35806: [R] Improve error message for null type inference with sparse CSClaude Code
  • ca684524GH-49486: [CI][C++] Fix Meson build missing tensor extension sources (#494Claude Code
  • 9e82bc2aGH-49458: [CI][C++] Fix Meson build referencing non-existent fixed_shape_tClaude Code

What was excluded

Commits in window659
Merge commits removed0
CI / dependency bots removed20
Considered639

Bots are excluded from the denominator entirely. Counting dependabot as “AI-written code” is the fastest way to produce a meaningless number.

How this was measured

Measured over February–August 2026, cloned directly. Detection is deterministic string matching against signatures agents write about themselves — no heuristics, no style analysis. Merge commits and CI bots are excluded from the denominator. The figure is a floor: squash merges strip trailers, so real usage is higher. Contributor counts are aggregate — no individual is named.

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