Arsham Khosravani and Audris Mockus studied AI coding-agent traces across more than 180 million Git repositories, finding that single-signal measurements miss most agent activity and that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agents appear in distinct open-source contribution channels.
Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories
Arsham Khosravani and Audris Mockus studied AI coding-agent traces across more than 180 million Git repositories, finding that single-signal measurements miss most agent activity and that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agents appear in distinct open-source contribution channels.
Source: Arxiv