How GitHub Is Rebuilding Its Git Storage for the Age of AI Agents

GitHub recently published a blog post explaining that it is rebuilding the system that stores all of its Git repositories, and the reason is AI agents. Not models, not features: the storage layer underneath every repository on the platform. Here is what is breaking, and how GitHub plans to fix it. GitHub rebuilds Git storage for AI agents · NotVibesCoded AI agents commit and push after almost every step, and that traffic broke the scaling assumptions underneath GitHub. The company is rebuilding its Git storage… notvibescoded.com The Scale of the Problem In September, developers and agents made 7.38 billion commits on GitHub, more than five times as many as a year earlier. Pushes grew by almost the same factor, reaching 3.35 billion a month. Merged pull requests are