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Has Git stopped working? 25 million checkouts a day

October 20, 2026
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Anthropic reports that it performs around twenty-five million code checkouts a day for CI, before counting development environments, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. Twenty-five million occasions when a process may end up preparing files from the monorepo. But some of those processes

Anthropic reports that it performs around twenty-five million code checkouts a day for CI, before counting development environments, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. Twenty-five million occasions when a process may end up preparing files from the monorepo. But some of those processes only want to inspect a diff. And if they only need to see what changed, downloading code seems like a lot of work to get a small answer. That is the question driving the story of Scion, the version control system Anthropic built to replace Git in its monorepo. Capital de Tokens explains that the change addresses an exceptional workload: agents and continuous integration jobs querying the code over and over, almost always connected to the network. So, is the argument that Git has stopped working? No.

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