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30%
of 1,464 commits were committed by an AI agent — a floor, not an estimate
30% agent · top contributor 73.1%42 contributors
team

A small group is using agents. Adoption has spread beyond one person but is not project-wide.

439
agent commits
1,025
human commits
42
agent contributors
73.1%
largest contributor

Assisted or autonomous

437assisted
2autonomous

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
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Jul26
Aug26
Sep26

Peak month: 59.3%. Bars are scaled to that peak, not to 100%.

Which agents

Claude CodeAnthropic42729.2%
GitHub CopilotGitHub120.8%
Cursor AgentAnysphere40.3%

Verify it yourself

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

  • aae889a2fix(datasource/go): cache the publication time of each version (#45951)Claude Code
  • 0649d9f8test(datasource/go): show that `.info` timestamps are refetched (#45950)Claude Code
  • cbd9e92dfeat(manager/github-actions): support conda-incubator/setup-miniconda versClaude Code
  • b62fe595fix: remove references to "bot" (#39305)GitHub Copilot
  • 183fc146docs: clarify GHSA publishing timelines and CVE IDs (#45307)GitHub Copilot
  • cc5bcaafci: add `auto:pls-merge-main` label workflow to merge main into a PR brancGitHub Copilot
  • 795d0832feat(datasource): add APK datasource support (#40250)Cursor Agent
  • a84e007ffeat(vulnerabilities): match OSV Packagist sub-ecosystems (#45203)Cursor Agent
  • def09c26fix(github): use base_tree in pushFiles to avoid org ruleset file-path resCursor Agent

What was excluded

Commits in window3,238
Merge commits removed0
CI / dependency bots removed1,774
Considered1,464

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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