GitHub Octoverse 2026 cites tripled pull requests and commits
Original title: GitHub Octoverse 2026
GitHub says monthly merged pull requests reached 220 million and commits 7.38 billion, linking the jump to agentic engineering.
At GitHub Universe, EVP Jay Parikh presented the 2026 Octoverse report and highlighted a sharp rise in repository activity. Merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month, while commits rose to 7.38 billion per month, mostly in the second half of the year. New repositories doubled to 30.3 million per month. The available excerpt says the report also includes industry figures and interoperability repositories but cuts off before those details.
Unconfirmed: The activity figures are GitHub’s own Octoverse highlights, and the excerpt does not include the full report.
- Simon Willison attended GitHub Universe on a GitHub Stars ticket.
- Most of the reported commit increase came in the second half of 2026.
- The excerpt ends before the industry and interoperability breakdowns.
- Organizations
- GitHub
From the original article
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the impact of agentic engineering on GitHub. In 2026, merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month.
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