Managing Bot-Generated PRs & Reducing Team Workload by 6%

Chart showing comparison of Total bots, Dependabot, and Renovate

Bot-Generated PR Density by Vendor

Teams with more than 100 bot-generated PRs in the last 6 months.

Research Insights

Bot-generated pull requests are on the rise (13.3% of all PRs are bot-created today), and they are creating a unique impact on your SDLC. In this research report, you’ll discover insights like:

54% of bot PRs are deleted without action

96.18% of all bot-created PRs are not linked to a PM tool

12.27 days is the average vulnerability time for bot-created PRs

How To Manage Your Bot-Generated PRs

You’ll learn how to leverage PR automation to identify and auto-approve over 40% of dependency update PRs. With bot agent automation, your team can do things like:

Ensure PRs are always linked to JIRA tickets

Auto-approve safe PRs (such as updates to docs or image, etc.)

Get real-time PR updates with vital context (like estimated review time, PR owner & related issue links)

The Future of AI Agents

A study of key open-source repos shows a surge in bot-created PRs, with the share of bot PRs rising from 5% to 15% over the past two years. This highlights a broader shift towards automation in software development. Now is the time to begin managing your bot-created PRs, while many of the changes are still straightforward.