MONTHLY SNAPSHOT
January 2026 GitHub Activity
GitHub-wide activity for January 2026, aggregated from GH Archive. Repository-level observation on this site started in May 2026, so there is no AI repo breakdown for this month — that is a gap in our coverage, not a count of zero.
CONTEXT Global GitHub activity (GH Archive)
138,852,166
cumulative repos
+4.5%
MoM
9,970,964
active repos
-0.7%
MoM
8,192,252
create events
+1.5%
MoM
605,817
forks
4,380,852
new repos
-2.9%
MoM
74,652,688
push events
-1.3%
MoM
2,957,026
watch events
Note: GH Archive's fork and watch/star coverage degrades sharply from late 2025. The values are shown as published by the source, but no month-over-month is derived from them.