Published June 23, 2026 ยท Added June 24, 2026

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.

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.

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Source: Arxiv