GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is made by GitHub. Product site
- Ranked developers with GitHub Copilot activity6in the current snapshot
- Their AI-assisted commits, last 30 days60,978all tools combined, not GitHub Copilot alone
How GitHub Copilot marks a commit
Detection looks for any one of these signals. A commit needs only one to be attributed.
| Signal | Pattern |
|---|---|
| Commit author | copilot[bot] |
| Commit author | copilot-swe-agent[bot] |
Example
Author: copilot-swe-agent[bot]
Fix the null check in the session handler
Copilot is the most-used AI coding tool and the least visible in commit history. Its original and still dominant mode is inline completion inside the editor, which produces ordinary commits authored by the developer with nothing to detect.
What is detectable is the Copilot coding agent, which opens pull requests under
a GitHub App identity. Those commits carry a deterministic [bot] author name,
so they attribute cleanly, and they are counted toward the tool and the
repository but never toward a person.
The practical consequence: any comparison that puts Copilot beside a trailer-writing tool is comparing what each tool chooses to disclose, not how much each is used. Treat the Copilot figure as a measure of agent adoption only.
What detection misses
- Inline completion, which is most Copilot usage, leaves no signature at all.
- Only the coding agent commits under a bot identity; suggestions accepted in the editor are indistinguishable from hand-written code.
Ranked developers using GitHub Copilot
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