AI Agent Pull Requests on GitHub: Frequency, Structure, and Merge Conflict Rates

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arXiv:2607.04697v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents may generate and submit Pull Requests (PRs) to the same repository at the same time. However, research concerning the extent of concurrent submission by AI coding agents to a common repository does not exist. This paper uses the AIDev-pop dataset (33,596 PRs in 2,807 repositories) to provide the first empirical examination of the prevalence of concurrent submission using PRs authored by agents. We report that when considering exa