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cline/cline

In Survival Report #4 (2026-10-05, method v3): 65,473 of 97,936 lines introduced by 156 AI-tagged commits are still at HEAD, 66.9 %. 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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156AI-tagged commits · of 7,426 97,936lines introduced by them 65,473still attributed to them at HEAD 66.9 %line-weighted 71.3 %median per commit 12 %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: 7,270 commits, 1,988,466 lines introduced, 823,649 still at HEAD (41.4 % line-weighted, 20.5 % median per commit). Age is the time from a commit to HEAD. Method v3; definition at causari.dev/method.

Age-matched: AI-tagged lines 66.9 % against untagged lines of the same age 55.2 %, a gap of +11.7 pts, over 5 age windows holding 100 % of the AI-tagged lines.

Line ageAI-taggedcommitsUntaggedcommits
0–30 d86.1 %2385.0 %292
30–90 d85.6 %4281.8 %702
90–180 d80.0 %1777.0 %996
180–365 d55.6 %5718.0 %1,705
365–730 d6.4 %1720.7 %2,902
730+ d—011.1 %673

By agent, in Survival Report #4

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

AgentCommitsLines introducedStill at HEADLine-weightedCapped
claude-code6744,73735,55879.5 %81.5 %
cursor4216,53013,05579.0 %77.5 %
github-copilot4736,66916,86046.0 %44.2 %

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 %: #1 66.2 %; #2 66.3 %; #3 66.5 %; #4 66.9 %
ReportDateAI-tagged commitsLines introducedStill at HEADLine-weighted
Survival Report #12026-09-2015495,30163,06366.2 %
Survival Report #22026-09-2315595,92463,61566.3 %
Survival Report #32026-09-2815595,92463,75666.5 %
Survival Report #42026-10-0515697,93665,47366.9 %

Reproduce

One command, any machine, no account: the same bytes the report was built from. The exact bytes behind this page are repos/cline__cline.json of Survival Report #4. Open an issue with your JSON if it differs.

re audit cline/cline --json   # method v3, full clone

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Coverage

  • Method v3, causari 0.3.0. Detection from commit metadata only; survival from git blame -w -M -C at HEAD.
  • Full clone: yes. Method v3 refuses shallow clones; this row comes from a complete history.
  • Sample: 156 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: 3,290 lines per commit in this repository; the capped ratio is 68.5 %.
  • .git-blame-ignore-revs: not present in this repository.