Through internal testing, GitHub’s new Git storage architecture supported 5,000 concurrent agents working on a repo, sending 7,200 pushes per second, all while serving read traffic with consistently low latency. https://t.co/Lfi55duJ77
GitHub explains how it moves ref updates into a replicated log (Ref-CAS) while packs sit in blob storage, so a single repo can take thousands of AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → pushes per second. Shows the load agentic workflows put on Git and what is coming, with private preview now.
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context compaction — Summarizing an agent's earlier conversation to free room in the context window so a long session can keep going.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
