Pulse
2026-09-18-v3.0
Dataset
2026-09-18-v3.0
Ruleset
b2e8889c66f7
Scanned
2026-09-16
Window
February–September 15, 2026
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01Result

payloadcms/payload ↗

payloadcms/payload AI coding statistics: 6%

of 1,048 commits in February–September 15, 2026 were committed by an AI agent — a floor, not an estimate
6% agent · top contributor 76.2%12 contributors
team

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

63
agent commits
985
other considered commits
12
agent contributors
76.2%
largest contributor

02Drivers

What shapes this result

Mode, timing, and detected signatures show whether the result reflects broad adoption or one concentrated workflow.

Assisted or autonomous

63assisted
0autonomous

Assisted — a developer’s identity authored the commit and the agent added itself as co-author. Autonomous — a bot identity authored the commit without a human identity attached. Across the whole index, 96% of agent commits are assisted.

Agent share by month

Agent-attributed commit share by month
MonthAgent shareConsidered commits
2026-022.9%139
2026-033.4%119
2026-044.3%184
2026-053.4%147
2026-0616.3%172
2026-076.1%163
2026-084.2%96
2026-090%28

Peak month: 16.3%. Bars are scaled to that peak, not to 100%.

Which agents

AgentVendorCommitsShare
GitHub CopilotGitHub484.6%
Claude CodeAnthropic141.3%
Cursor AgentAnysphere20.2%

03Evidence

Inspect the matches

Public commit samples let you inspect the signatures behind the aggregate result.

Matched commit samples

  • 4e891502 on GitHubfix(ui): improve dashboard widget edit controls (#17359)GitHub Copilot
  • 0409a0f5 on GitHubfix(storage-vercel-blob): allow overwriting existing blob keys (#17383)GitHub Copilot
  • f7b20705 on GitHubfix(plugin-multi-tenant): apply tenant on confirm (#17348)GitHub Copilot
  • f7df2137 on GitHubci: gate mongodb test healthcheck on a writable primary (#17816)Claude Code
  • dcd6d7d5 on GitHubtest: deflake trash breadcrumb collapse e2e (#17810)Claude Code
  • 7bac6ab8 on GitHubfeat: support PAYLOAD_SECRET rotation with a versioned keyring (#17674)Claude Code
  • 0554b502 on GitHubfix(plugin-nested-docs): await populateBreadcrumbs in resaveChildren (#155Cursor Agent
  • 8422668f on GitHubchore: replace magic strings with centralized constants (#15475)Cursor Agent

04Method

What entered the denominator

The result begins with commit history, removes merges and routine automation, and reports literal agent signatures as a lower bound.

Exclusion ledger

Commits in window1,048
Merge commits removed−0
CI / dependency bots removed−0
Considered1,048

Bots are excluded from the denominator entirely. Agent attribution requires a literal supported signature; no code-style inference is used.

05Provenance

Pinned to a source state

This observation names the repository state, release, and detector that produced it. Use these identifiers when reproducing or citing the result.

Dataset release
2026-09-18-v3.0
Scan date
2026-09-16
Ruleset
sha256:b2e8889c66f72c18a61839f0bf1a9f77b5481ba2def044dba33c797b2f2bdcae
Canonical repository
payloadcms/payload
Default branch
main
Resolved HEAD
9a2cdcb87aacae41b66ab558a056d974c8f38f4e ↗
Resolved
2026-09-16
Measurement window
February–September 15, 2026
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06Peer context

Position among comparable repositories

The cohort uses the same release and measurement window, then narrows to the repository’s ecosystem and removes low-activity observations.

CohortJS/TS · 376 eligible repositories · at least 100 considered commits2026-09-18-v3.0 · February–September 15, 2026 · 194 of 570 ecosystem repositories excluded
Agent-commit share position52nd percentile

Midrank percentile; equal shares split the tied positions.

Repository
6%
Cohort median
5.4%
Share rank
178 / 376
0th50th100th

Percentile = (repositories below + half of 4 tied repositories) ÷ 376.

Continue exploring

Claude Code commitsBrowse repositories with detected Claude Code signatures →GitHub Copilot commitsBrowse repositories with detected GitHub Copilot signatures →Cursor Agent commitsBrowse repositories with detected Cursor Agent signatures →GitHub AI commit analyzerInspect another repository with the same evidence model →
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Deterministic signature matching; no code-style inference. Squash merges can remove trailers, so this result remains a measured floor.

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