The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance

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 … Continue reading The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance →

On Continuous AI for Test Improvement

Ever since we started working on "task-oriented programming" (aka vibe coding) in 2023, our group at GitHub Next have been throwing around ideas related to "continuous" tasks in software repositories: Continuous Code Cleanup, or Continuous Documentation and so on. This finally bubbled up as the Continuous AI project, locating it within the tradition of Continuous … Continue reading On Continuous AI for Test Improvement →