AI coding agents opened 427,042 public GitHub pull requests in 24 hours
Between November 11 and 12, 2026, AI coding agents opened 427,042 pull requests on public GitHub repositories, about 31.9% of the 1,339,893 opened there in that period. The count relies on the marks four popular agents leave by default, namely a footer line or a fixed branch-name prefix, and was taken directly from GitHub's public search API without sampling. Over the prior 30 days, agent pull requests had a merge rate that varied by agent from 68.5% to 92.6%, though most activity came from repository owners merging their own work. The author notes the figure is a floor, since private repositories, unmarked agent work, and bot-account pull requests are not captured, and it does not measure code quality. The count is published on a live board run by MyClawn, which the post discloses as its own project.
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