interaction-patterns/UNITE

The UNITE (hUman-agent iNteractions In Teamwork Environments) dataset provides a comprehensive view of how humans, AI agents, and traditional bots collaborate within GitHub pull requests (PRs). It complements the AIDev dataset by including all PRs involving agent participation, regardless of who initiated them. UNITE comprises 6,445 PRs and 74,525 interactions from 671 unique participants, collected across 383 repositories from AIDev that exhibited agent activity between December 2024 and July 2025.

By making UNITE publicly available, we aim to support research on human-agent collaboration in pull requests.

Dataset Structure

ℹ️ Note
To protect sensitive information, all email addresses in the user table have been replaced with automatically generated ones based on the user's login or name.

Figure 1. Schema of UNITE. New attributes included with respect to AIDev are highlighted in bold.

Tables

The dataset is organised into four tables:

• pull_request (6,445 rows): Stores details about the pull requests.
• repository (383 rows): Contains metadata for the GitHub repositories included in the dataset.
• user (671 rows): Includes information about users who participated in the pull requests.
• interaction (74,525 rows): Records the interactions of users in pull requests.

Columns

The columns of each table are as follows:

• pull_request:
  • id: The unique GitHub identifier for the pull request.
  • number: The pull request number, unique within the repository.
  • title: The title of the pull request.
  • body: The description/body text of the pull request.
  • user_id: The ID of the user who created the pull request.
  • user: The login (username) of the user who created the pull request.
  • state: The state of the pull request (e.g., 'open', 'closed').
  • created_at: The timestamp when the pull request was created.
  • closed_at: The timestamp when the pull request was closed (if applicable).
  • merged_at: The timestamp when the pull request was merged (if applicable).
  • repo_id: The unique ID of the repository the pull request belongs to.
  • repo_url: The API URL of the parent repository.
  • html_url: The web URL to view the pull request in a browser.
  • head_ref: The name of the branch where the changes are implemented.
  • author: The classification of the PR author (i.e., 'human', 'bot', or 'agent').
  • agent_authored_pattern: The pattern or rule matched to classify the PR as agent-authored (e.g., specific branch name templates or body phrases), or null if not agent-authored.
  • agent_name: The inferred name of the AI agent (e.g., 'copilot', 'claude') if the PR is agent-authored.
  • agent_participation: Boolean indicating if an AI agent participated in the PR.
  • bot_participation: Boolean indicating if a traditional bot participated in the PR.
  • human_participation: Boolean indicating if a human participated in the PR.
• repository:
  • id: The unique GitHub identifier for the repository.
  • url: The GitHub API URL for the repository.
  • license: The license key (e.g., 'MIT', 'Apache-2.0') associated with the repository.
  • full_name: The full name of the repository in owner/repo format.
  • language: The primary programming language of the repository.
  • forks: The number of forks the repository has.
  • stars: The number of stars (stargazers) the repository has received.
  • status_code: The HTTP status code returned when collecting the repository data (e.g., 200 for available).
• interaction:
  • pr_id: The identifier of the pull request.
  • user_id: The identifier of the user interacting with the PR.
  • role: The role performed by the user (e.g., 'author', 'reviewer', 'commenter').
  • performed_at: The timestamp when the interaction occurred (e.g., date of comment, review, or commit).
  • actor_type: The classification of the actor that performed the action on the pull request (i.e., 'human', 'bot', or 'agent'). This may differ from the associated user (e.g., when an agent acts using a human user account).
• user:
  • id: The unique GitHub identifier for the user.
  • login: The username (login) of the user.
  • name: The full name of the user (if available).
  • email: A synthetic email address generated from the user's login or name for privacy-preserving purposes.
  • api_type: The type of account returned by the GitHub API (i.e., 'User', or 'Bot') or synthetic types when the user is not associated with a GitHub account (e.g., 'Co-Author').
  • html_url: The web URL to the user's profile.
  • actor_type: The classification of the user (i.e., 'human', 'bot', or 'agent').

License

This dataset includes metadata derived from public GitHub repositories. All source repositories retain their original licenses, and any referenced code or artefacts remain governed by those licenses.

Logo Credits

The UNITE logo image was created with the assistance of DALL·E 3.