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GitHub Octoverse 2026: agents start over 40% of pull requests, pushes hit 17.9 billion, and Copilot users tapped 47 models

On Oct 28 GitHub published its Octoverse 2026 report: developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with 34.3 billion commits and 1.3 billion merged pull requests (3.5 million a day). By September more than 40% of pull requests started with an agent draft, up from 17% in March; 55% of Copilot monthly active users use agentic features, and paid Copilot users used 47 distinct models in September.

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17.9 billion pushes, 34.3 billion commits and 1.3 billion merged pull requests in the past 12 months, about 3.5 million merges a day (GitHub figures)
More than 40% of pull requests started with an agent draft by September 2026, up from 17% in March; that was 110 million in September alone, about 6x March
55% of Copilot monthly active users now use agentic features, up from 35% a year ago, and Copilot cloud agent grew 230% year over year
Paid Copilot users used 29 distinct models in May and 47 in September, with no model above 25% of requests; 61% of users who pick models mix more than one
GitHub now serves more than 225 million developers; the US has 38.3 million and India 32 million, each adding over 10 million this year

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🤖 GitHub Copilot 🤖 Copilot cloud agent 🌐 GitHub 🌐 Microsoft

#GitHub#Octoverse 2026#coding agents#pull requests#GitHub Copilot#developer growth

GitHub@github·Collected 29d ago

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GitHub stacked pull requests are generally available on all github.com plans: approvals survive rebases, whole stacks land via merge queue, and gh stack ships an AI-agent skill

On 2026-10-06 GitHub made stacked pull requests generally available on all github.com plans, with GitHub Enterprise Server support coming in a later release. Since the public preview, repos using stacks have merged 9% more code than their peers, and more than two-thirds of the top 1% of repos now use them, with a 5% faster time-to-merge. New in GA: approvals are kept for unchanged code after a rebase, replacement commits are signed automatically, a whole stack enters the merge queue as one merge group, stacks retarget automatically when their base branch is deleted, and stack auto-merge is rolling out over the coming weeks. The gh-stack CLI extension (v0.2.0) now supports Git worktrees, and gh skill install github/gh-stack teaches AI coding agents how to split large changes into stacked PRs.

Key Takeaways

Impact (changelog): repos using stacks merge 9% more code; over 2/3 of the top 1% of repos use them, with 5% faster time-to-merge
Approvals and signing: Rebase stack keeps approvals on unchanged code even when stale approvals are dismissed; replacement commits are signed and keep the original authorship
Merge queue: a stack lands as 1 merge group; with the merge-commit method, each PR gets its own merge commit; stack auto-merge rolls out over the next few weeks
Agents: gh-stack v0.2.0 (2026-10-02, 1.6k stars) supports worktrees and installs an agent skill via gh skill install github/gh-stack; the pull_request webhook gains a stacked action
Coverage: all github.com plans now, GHES in an upcoming release; requires gh v2.0+ and Git 2.36+

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🤖 GitHub Copilot 🌐 GitHub 🌐 Microsoft

#Github#Stacked prs#Gh stack#Code review#Merge queue#AI coding agents#Developer workflow

Hugging Face@huggingface·Collected 41d ago

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Knowledge Pull Requests (KPRs) Released: Bringing Git PR Workflows to LLM Knowledge Bases

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have introduced Knowledge Pull Requests (KPRs, arXiv: 2609.26634), an interpretable framework for continual document authoring. Treating knowledge curation analogously to software pull requests, KPRs decouple factual claim extraction from textual diffs and automate contradiction detection, outperforming blind text regeneration in enterprise RAG systems.

Key Takeaways

Translates code review paradigms into document curation, producing interpretable claim changelogs alongside textual diffs.
Employs automated factual contradiction detectors, surfacing source discrepancies with 91.4% precision.
Improves grounded knowledge retention by 48% over monolithic re-generation across multilingual benchmark corpora.
Preprint, evaluation datasets, and pipeline code are accessible on arXiv and Hugging Face Papers.

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Linked Models & Agents:

⚡ DeepSeek-V3 ⚡ Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B 🤖 kpr-agent 🌐 huggingface 🌐 johns-hopkins

#Knowledge Base#RAG#KPRs#Pull Request#Hugging Face#ArXiv#Continual Learning

Dan Kornas@DanKornas·Collected 46d ago

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DispatchSEO open-sources an MCP SEO workflow for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor

@DanKornas introduced DispatchSEO, an open-source SEO workflow app for builders using Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. It turns keyword ideas into content pull requests via agent research, an approval queue, scheduled builds, and search tracking. Agents connect over MCP to research, queues, rankings, pages, and Search Console; features include scheduled PR builds, daily rank checks, hourly Search Console snapshots, multi-site tokens, and an AGPL-3.0 license.

Key Takeaways

MCP connects agents to research, queues, rankings, pages, and Search Console data.
An approval queue feeds scheduled guide or free-tool pull-request builds.
Multi-site deployments get separate tokens and data under AGPL-3.0.

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🤖 Claude Code (Anthropic)🤖 Cursor Composer (Agent Mode)

#DispatchSEO#SEO#MCP#Claude Code#Codex#Cursor#Search Console#AGPL#open source

Cursor@cursor_ai·Collected 65d ago

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Cursor upgrades cloud agents with per-subagent VMs, /goal, and event-driven PR completion

Cursor shipped a cloud-agent update focused on long-running, event-driven work. Cloud agents can pick up tasks from events, hold a goal until it is met, and stay on course through long sessions. They can monitor pull requests, watch a Slack thread, or run scheduled tasks, and they automatically subscribe to PRs they create and drive them to completion. Any skill can be pinned as a Custom Mode from the slash menu with Option-Enter or Alt-Enter, acting as an always-on skill. Subagents can now run on their own virtual machines, each with an isolated copy of the project, so they can test the parent agent's changes in a fresh environment or swarm independent fixes. Steering waits for the next tool call instead of cutting the agent off mid-action. A new /goal command assigns a long-lived objective. The full changelog is dated August 19, 2026. Together these changes move Cursor from in-editor chat toward an orchestration layer for isolated, interruptible coding agents.

Key Takeaways

Cloud agents monitor PRs, Slack, and schedules, and they drive their own PRs to completion.
Subagents run on isolated VMs with their own project copies for clean tests or parallel fixes.
/goal sets long-lived objectives, and steering now waits for the next tool call instead of interrupting mid-action.

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⚡ Composer 2.5 🤖 Cursor Composer (Agent Mode)🌐 Cursor (Anysphere)

#Cursor#cloud agents#Subagents#virtual machines#Changelog

GitHub@github·Collected 66d ago

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GitHub Dependabot Implements 3-Day Cooldown on Non-Security Version Updates to Counter Supply-Chain Attacks

GitHub introduced a 3-day cooldown on Dependabot non-security version update pull requests, providing vulnerability scanners a detection window to catch poisoned packages before automated merging.

Key Takeaways

Cooldown applies exclusively to non-security bumps; critical security CVE patches trigger immediately;
Grants security scanners and community maintainers a 72-hour window to identify and revoke malicious releases;
GitHub Security published detailed supply-chain guidelines explaining the necessity of update buffers.

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