We have a draft of new report from GitHub Next!
We analyze the impact of Repo Assist, a proactive AI repository agent, across 13 open source repositories that adopted it between February and March 2026. The agent reduced open issue counts in every repository — 578 issues total. Across all repositories, which were previously largely dormant, issue closure velocity increased by a median of 8× and PR merge velocity by a median of 10× after adoption, transforming largely dormant projects into actively maintained ones.
Modeling repositories as human-agent software factories reveals that, the single most important factor determining outcomes is the rate at which maintainers decide to act on the agent’s output: the human is firmly in the loop, and the factory’s throughput is gated by human decision-making.
We may be updating this draft, but we thought we’d share this version right away.
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