Ecosystem personality
Bots went from rounding error to one in ten commits
Bot-authored commits rose from 0.1% in 2015 to 9.8% in 2025.
- Headline statistic
- 0.1% → 9.8%
- 2026 edition
Bot-authored commit share
The supplied observations show bot-authored commits rising from 0.1% in 2015 to 9.8% in 2025.
Commit shares use flagged automated accounts; no intermediate observations are supplied.
Source: FOSS Data — https://www.fossdata.org
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Data table
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| Year | Bot-authored commits |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.1% |
| 2025 | 9.8% |
Supporting explanation
Bot-authored commits rose from 0.1% in 2015 to 9.8% in 2025. The most prolific contributors across all of open source are now machines: dependabot (1.15M), renovate (583k), github-actions (302k).
Publication details
- Category
- Ecosystem personality
- Applicable filter
- Category: Ecosystem personality
- Edition
2026 edition
Measured 25 June 2026
Published 2 August 2026
- Source
- Based on the Exodos Labs provenance dataset.