Enterprise AI in Numbers · Adoption and spend
Pull requests opened by AI coding agents on public GitHub, per month
1,100,065
1,100,065 as of September 30, 2026, according to GitHub search API, our monthly counts, up from 912,926 on August 31, 2026. Pull requests opened in the month by cloud coding agents, counted by GitHub search for each agent's account or branch pattern. Parts give each agent.
What it means for leaders
Coding agents now open pull requests on their own at scale, not just suggest lines of code. Decide how agent work enters your repositories: who assigns it, who reviews it and what it may merge.
What would change the reading: Month-over-month growth by agent, and shifts in which agent leads.
The trend
The breakdown
Every reading
| Date | Value | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,100,065 | +20.5% | Source | |
| 912,926 | +13.6% | Source | |
| 803,968 | +23.8% | Source | |
| 649,210 | −17.1% | Source | |
| 782,933 | +6.0% | Source | |
| 738,422 | −10.0% | Source | |
| 820,637 | +20.9% | Source | |
| 678,574 | +25.6% | Source | |
| 540,358 | +13.4% | Source | |
| 476,309 | +0.1% | Source | |
| 475,865 | −15.2% | Source | |
| 561,320 | +24.0% | Source | |
| 452,746 | +3.4% | Source | |
| 437,651 | +45.1% | Source | |
| 301,681 | −24.7% | Source | |
| 400,812 | — | Source |
Definition and method
- What it measures
- Pull requests opened in the month by cloud coding agents, counted by GitHub search for each agent's account or branch pattern. Parts give each agent.
- Population
- Pull requests opened in public GitHub repositories
- Updated
- Monthly
- Source
- GitHub search API, our monthly counts · CC BY 4.0
Caveats
- Public repositories only.
- Agents are identified by the app account that opens the pull request, or for OpenAI Codex by its "codex/" branches, which some people also use by hand; agent work submitted through a person's own account (most local coding assistants) is not counted.
Cite this
Enterprise AI in Numbers, "Pull requests opened by AI coding agents on public GitHub, per month", https://lucianoayres.com/ai-brief/data/agent-authored-prs/, retrieved October 25, 2026. Data: GitHub search API, our monthly counts.