GitHub reports 17.9 billion pushes in the past 12 months. Commits reached 34.3 billion, more than triple the 2024 total. Merged pull requests hit 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million a day. GitHub Actions ran 45.4 billion jobs, over three times last year’s total. Developers now start over 40% of pull requests with an agent. Repos with agent configs log eight times as many commits as those without. 61% of GitHub Copilot users now use more than one model. Public contributions doubled to 2.5 billion. GitHub now hosts over 225 million developers. India and the US each added over 10 million developers this year. Brazil added 3.28 million developers. Agent-opened pull requests are highest in construction at 9%. Mining, construction, health care, and agriculture repos grew several times over since 2022. Growth forecasts for 2031 now range from under 2x to over 6x.
What changed
Agents were experimental and single-session tools.
What it unlocks
Agents now track progress across days and orchestrate other specialized agents.
- 17.9B pushes in 12 months
- 34.3B commits in 12 months
- 45.4B Actions jobs in 12 months
- 1.3B merged pull requests in 12 months
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