Google’s Sashiko AI has reviewed 191,000 Linux kernel patches and is cited in 463 CVEs in one year
At Linux Plumbers Conference 2026, Google detailed Sashiko, its agentic code-review system for the Linux kernel: 191,000 patches reviewed across 99 lists, and 1,277 upstream commits and 463 CVEs citing it in one year. Those numbers make automated review a credible complement for overloaded maintainers — not a replacement.