GitHub Octoverse 2026 report shows merged pull requests tripled to 220 million per month

GitHub's Octoverse 2026 report reveals that merged pull requests tripled to 220 million per month and commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month in 2026. The new repository creation rate doubled to 30.3 million per month. The report attributes this growth to agentic engineering and breaks down data by industry and interoperability or reverse engineering projects.