repository · survival report #6 · 2026-10-19 · method v4 · unranked

TracecatHQ/tracecat

In Survival Report #6 (2026-10-19, method v4): 286,397 of 430,994 lines introduced by 613 AI-tagged commits are still at HEAD, 66.5 %. These are counts, not grades. No rank, no colour, no verdict, and no comparison with any other repository on this page. Every number links to the audit bytes behind it and the method and its limits are public.

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613AI-tagged commits · of 6,011 430,994lines introduced by them 286,397still attributed to them at HEAD 66.5 %line-weighted 64.3 %median per commit 4 %of introduced lines in the largest commit

Baseline: this repository's untagged lines

Commits with no machine-readable AI signal, human-written, inline-completed or untagged-agent code alike: 5,398 commits, 1,577,558 lines introduced, 1,030,817 still at HEAD (65.3 % line-weighted, 10.8 % median per commit). Age is the time from a commit to HEAD. The baseline was added in method v3 and is unchanged later; definition at causari.dev/method.

Age-matched: AI-tagged lines 66.5 % against untagged lines in the matched age windows 68.0 %, a gap of -1.5 pts, over 5 age windows holding 100 % of the AI-tagged lines.

Line ageAI-taggedcommitsUntaggedcommits
0–30 d83.1 %10589.2 %97
30–90 d82.9 %4986.8 %272
90–180 d67.0 %2474.2 %380
180–365 d60.6 %36865.8 %1,018
365–730 d55.6 %6741.5 %1,863
730+ d—023.2 %1,768

By agent, in Survival Report #6

Alphabetical. A commit is attributed to the agent its metadata names; one agent per commit. VERIFIED commits only.

AgentCommitsLines introducedStill at HEADLine-weightedCapped
claude-code303241,164138,89257.6 %56.4 %
cursor2914,32210,34372.2 %71.6 %
devin147122,306101,24582.8 %81.8 %
openai-codex13453,20235,91767.5 %67.9 %

History across reports

One row per report this repository was measured in, oldest first; each report measured HEAD as of its own date. The line is the line-weighted ratio on a fixed 0 – 100 % axis; each point is one report.

Line-weighted ratio across reports, 0 to 100 %: #2 67.2 %; #4 67.9 %; #5 69.3 %; #6 66.5 %
ReportDateAI-tagged commitsLines introducedStill at HEADLine-weighted
Survival Report #22026-09-23520347,883233,66467.2 %
Survival Report #42026-10-05555367,704249,76267.9 %
Survival Report #52026-10-12582406,229281,47469.3 %
Survival Report #62026-10-19613430,994286,39766.5 %

Reproduce

One command, any machine, no account: the same bytes the report was built from. The exact bytes behind this page are repos/TracecatHQ__tracecat.json of Survival Report #6. Open an issue with your JSON if it differs.

re audit TracecatHQ/tracecat --json   # method v4, full clone

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Coverage

  • Method v4, causari 0.4.1. Detection from commit metadata only; survival from git blame -w -M -C at HEAD.
  • Full clone: yes. Method v4 refuses shallow clones; this row comes from a complete history.
  • Sample: 613 AI-tagged commits; the sample floor is 5. At or above the floor, so the ratio is aggregated into the report.
  • PROBABLE: No PROBABLE commits: every counted commit carries machine-readable AI authorship metadata.
  • Cap: 3,674 lines per commit in this repository; the capped ratio is 65.0 %.
  • .git-blame-ignore-revs: not present in this repository.