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How common is AGENTS.md, really? I sampled GitHub: 6.2% of active repos, 1.0% of all repos
Community description: My last two posts gave rates with a self-selected denominator. This one fixes that: a generation-sliced sample of active repos (6.2%) and a uniform sample of the whole repo population (1.0%), plus the ecosystem numbers that surprised me.
Dev.to | Sep 19, 2026 | Janz
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Roughly 1,900 repos, all responses cached, seed 20260918. Frame A — active rate, by creation cohort. "AGENTS. md is the emerging standard" — no. 6. 2% of active repos is a real practice, not a standard.
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