Public GitHub repos with an agent-instruction file

AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md / Copilot / Cursor / Cline / Windsurf rule files. May 2025 - April 2026.

Source: GitHub code search + per-file commit history (GraphQL) · Queried 2026-04-29 sankalp0o.com

Built from a stratified sample of 3,478 public repos (about 500 per file pattern) that currently contain one of the seven files. For each sampled repo, the earliest commit touching that specific file gives the “first appearance” date; counts are aggregated by month and scaled to the snapshot total of 153,200 matching files. Same methodology in every month, so the line is apples-to-apples end to end.

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Sankalp Agarwal (May 2026), “Your repo isn’t a codebase anymore,” sankalp0o.com/writing/repos-in-the-agent-era. Method: stratified sample (n=3,478) from GitHub code search; per-file first-commit date via GitHub GraphQL; per-pattern counts scaled to snapshot totals. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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