GitHub says agents now start over 40% of pull requests, up from 17% in March

GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report says that by September more than 40% of pull requests on GitHub started with a detectable agent's first draft, up from 17% in March, about 110 million in September alone. GitHub also reports that 55% of Copilot's monthly active users now use agentic features, up from 35% a year ago, and that 61% of Copilot users who chose models themselves used more than one. India has 32 million developers on GitHub, second only to the United States, and added more than 10 million this year.