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SpaceX's Cursor has started the beta roll-out of its GitHub alternative, Origin, to Pro, Teams, and Enterprise subscribers on its paid plans.
One of the features Origin is launching with right away is GitHub sync, which lets you mirror your GitHub repositories into Origin in real time while keeping GitHub as the main source of truth for existing projects.
There are also other stuff you'd expect from a git host like creating repositories directly from Cursor agents, reviewing stacked pull requests with diffs, managing settings, connecting automations to repositories, and browsing code via the new web interface. Developers can also connect third-party integrations like Vercel for preview deployments, alongside Depot and Buildkite to run CI workflows.
Cursor first announced Origin in June at its debut developer event in San Francisco, pitching it as a "git forge for the agentic era." GitHub and GitLab, the company argued, were designed around developers writing code, opening PRs, and waiting for reviews. That can take days. An AI agent can generate changes much faster, sometimes several at once, which puts a very different kind of load on git hosts like GitHub. In its June demo, Cursor showed a swarm of AI agents pushing 22.6 commits per second while sustaining 81K pushes and 295K clones per hour on a single repository.
GitHub has been dealing with a lot of outages over the last few months. In January this year, there were at least two incidents with a model update configuration bug causing a 100% error rate on Copilot.
The next month was even worse with more than 5 incidents hitting PRs, Actions runners, webhooks, issues, Git pushes, Pages, and Packages within a single 12-hour period on February 9. There's literally been no month so far without a single incident. Just hours ago, the Microsoft-owned giant reported another outage that affected core APIs and web pages while causing a 50% failure rate on raw.githubusercontent.com, breaking package installs and Docker builds around the world.
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