When Bots Join the Team: Bot Adoption and the Institutional Fabric of Open-Source Software Projects
3.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13679.
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SummaryAn arXiv study examines 2,991 GitHub projects two years before and after each adopted its first bot, treating bots as team participants. Bot adoption is associated with more repeated collaboration, greater recognition of specific bots, fewer conflict cascades, and more distinctive outputs, clustering around adoption rather than accumulating gradually.
Why it mattersLarge-scale empirical evidence that predictable, rule-based agents can function as social infrastructure in human teams. Useful framing for anyone designing agent integrations that go beyond tool use.
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