November 14, 2026 · 5 min read
GitHub rebuilt Git storage so thousands of agents can write to one repo: inside Project Rubicon
GitHub rebuilt how it stores Git — Project Rubicon — so thousands of coding agents can write to one repository at once. Internal tests hit 7,200 pushes per second and 5,000 concurrent agents. The trick: immutable objects go to blob storage, and only the tiny mutable reference pointer needs consensus. How it works, and why it matters if you run parallel agents.



