Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot Traces at Production Scale

arXiv cs.AIAugust 4, 2026en

arXiv:2608.00101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex interleave multi-step LLM inference with tool execution, creating a workload different from chatbots. We present the first production-scale characterization of this workload using sampled GitHub Copilot traces from June 2026, comprising 3.2M users, 13M sessions, 761M LLM calls, and 95T tokens. Our analysis reveals distinctive workload properties with important systems implications. For example, agentic coding sessions consist of sparse user-initiated turns, each unfolding into an autonomous agent loop of LLM calls almost always coupled with tool execution. This structure yields KV cac

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