Anthropic rebuilt its Git backend for AI agents, cutting repo ops from 34 to 3.7 minutes
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-15
Anthropic built Scion, a from-scratch code repository system designed for AI agents rather than humans: daily merges grew from 2,500 in May to over 30,000 in a single day by September, breaking Git's assumptions.
- Built by 7 engineers in 5 months; repos live server-side with on-demand fetching
- Agent time spent on code management per change dropped from 34 minutes to 3.7 (self-reported)
- The architecture itself was publicized by Google back in 2016 — what's new is the execution speed; engineers spend much of their time telling Claude "no"
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