Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents

Behind that number are developers building what interests them and what their communities need. In Nepal, one developer built a flood bulletin on GitHub Pages with verified information on roads, rescue, weather, and power. It has since grown into Gati, a Nepali-first relay of official disaster alerts that runs on GitHub Pages and Actions.

Elsewhere, developers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating software designed to run programs aboard spacecraft, and fans built open-source firmware that lets people customize their e-readers. Curiosity, aimed in every direction, at a scale GitHub hasn't seen before. Partway through the year, activity on GitHub bent sharply upward, just as agents went from something developers were trying out to something they were working alongside.

Developers picked from more models than ever and built in industries we are highlighting in this report for the first time, from health care to agriculture. Octoverse is our chance to step back and look at the whole picture. This year, that picture is bigger than ever.