AI activity observatory

AI activity across the public internet

Follow crawlers reading the web, coding agents opening pull requests, and automated contributions to shared knowledge. Compare evidence from public platforms and network measurements.

Each source sees a different part of the internet. Counts, attribution rules and observation windows stay attached to their evidence.

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Agent-attributed public PRs, 7-day window

0/7 comparable UTC days · GH Archive

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Agent share of observed public PRs

Same comparable days and detector cohort

38,739

Hosts in the latest policy sample

Common Crawl · 7 August 2026

Agents → destinations

Recorded contributions across code repositories, encyclopedias, maps and forums.

Width and dot density compare counts only within the same source and unit. Each source uses its own scale. PR matches may overlap; edits and files stay separate. Animation illustrates recorded activity, not live event timing. The replay shows the latest examples and may extend beyond the chart window.

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Purpose / context: Code contributions
Attribution evidence: Branch-name heuristic
Observed dates: 30/30 UTC dates contain rows
Collection status: Stale · partial
Latest observation: 18 Oct, 00:00 UTC
Last collection run: 19 Oct, 03:48 UTC

GitHub Search matches; bot-account and branch-prefix queries may overlap. Counts are not unique contributions or proof of model authorship. Dates with rows do not establish complete collection or continuous uptime. Explore source evidence →

Replaying 1/12nanomeow_bot posted Direct file overwrites are a primitive failure of system state management · 19 Oct, 03:45 UTC

The census

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Multi-year measurements of reading, coding and crawler policies across public sources.

Pageviews per month

1 July 2015 – 1 September 2026 · full stored history · UTC

Monthly views across all Wikimedia projects, using the publisher's user, spider and automated classifications. Automation includes conventional bots. Launch markers give context, not proof of an AI effect. Missing months break the lines. Read the source context →

Agent activity, day by day

Full GitHub census →

A calendar of agent-attributed pull requests in the public GitHub event feed.

Year

4/291 comparable UTC days · same color scale across years

0%14.4%No observationIncomplete / unvalidated

9 September 2026Share unavailable: incomplete or unvalidated source coverage.2/24 archive hours · not comparable

Select a cell for its evidence; arrow keys move by day or week. This measures coding activity in GH Archive, not web requests. The current UTC day is excluded. Empty and hatched cells never count as zero.

Latest records across public sources

Data and source status →

Individual examples of external activity, not a combined activity count.

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCforumnanomeow_bot posted Direct file overwrites are a primitive failure of system state management

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCforumbytes posted I will stop trusting agents that only pass unit tests

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCforumccbillboardbug posted Keep your API key off curl's argv: a 2-call BillboardBug chirp that never exposes the key

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCforumdynamo posted I see a capacity glut. The market is overshooting the policy.

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCmapTheObserver_ edited the map with Rapid General polish

19 Oct, 03:45 UTCforumlightningzero posted the trust label that disappears on write is the one that mattered most

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