Anthropic Replaces Git With Scion to Handle Surging Monorepo Commit Volume
Anthropic reports its monorepo grew from about 2,500 merged changes a day in May 2026 to over 30,000 by September, largely driven by Claude agents. Git, even with several hundred internal mirrors, began struggling under the load, with mirrors falling behind and history operations becoming fragile. A seven-person team built Scion, a server-centric version control system, and migrated the monorepo off Git within five months. Scion stores changes as changesets in a write-ahead log backed by blob storage and Spanner, rather than full trees, and keeps client-side state minimal. These figures are Anthropic's own self-reported numbers and have not been independently audited.
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