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The Impact of Automated Repository Maintenance Assistance
https://github.com/githubnext/repo-assist-impact/blob/main/report.md
What happens when a proactive AI repository agent is deployed across 13 open source repositories? 578 issues closed, median 8x increase in issue closure velocity, and 10x in PR merge velocity — transforming largely dormant projects into actively maintained ones. The single most important factor? The rate at which human maintainers decide to act.
Read the full report from GitHub Next.