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