Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

kept by eddie aug 22

Cursor unveils Origin, a self‑hosted GitHub‑like platform that integrates AI‑powered code assistance to offer developers an alternative to traditional source‑hosting services.

We're launching code storage and git hosting. Origin gives teams and agents a place to host, review, and collaborate on code. Available th
Cursor announces Origin, a code storage and git hosting service for teams and AI agents, launching this fall.
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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor launched Origin, an AI‑native code‑hosting platform that mirrors GitHub, aiming to capture developer attention as GitHub’s reliability falters amid rising AI‑agent usage.
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Git at any scale
Cursor argues Git’s packfile‑based design hinders scalable hosting and presents Continuity, a S3‑backed write‑ahead log system that enables linear, consistent replication.
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Towards self-driving codebases
Cursor built a multi-agent harness that recursively delegates coding tasks across planners and workers, achieving ~1000 commits per hour on a browser research project with minimal human intervention.
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