GitHub Octoverse 2026

On October 28th, 2026, Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of GitHub, unveiled the company's annual Octoverse report at the GitHub Universe event. The report revealed significant growth in various metrics, highlighting the impact of agentic engineering on the platform.

Merged pull requests surged to an astonishing 220 million per month, more than tripling within a year. Commits also more than tripled to 7.38 billion monthly, with a majority of this increase occurring in the second half of the year. Additionally, the rate of new repositories doubled, reaching 30.3 million per month.

The report provided detailed statistics by industry and further broke down the data for repositories involving interoperability or reverse engineering. The methodology section offered insights into how GitHub collected this information, emphasizing the use of top countries by pushes to public repositories, adjusted by profile location. To counteract VPN usage biases, LLM classification was employed to extract the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code from the profiles of GitHub users who contributed pushes during the Octoverse year.

Another key aspect of the report focused on the industry breakdown. Public repositories created between 2022 and 2026 were categorized into North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sectors using a fine-tuned multilingual embedding model. This model analyzed factors such as name, description, topics, and README from random samples per year.

The report also delved into the topic of interoperability. It counted public repositories created each year whose name, description, topics, or README mentioned terms related to interoperability or reverse engineering, such as "clean room implementation," "drop-in replacement," or "protocol re-implementation."