Cursor just announced it is building a Git forge from scratch. Called Origin, it is a full code storage and hosting platform, a direct competitor to GitHub, designed from the ground up for a world where AI agents are doing most of the committing. The waitlist is open now, with a fall release window.
The problem with Git at agent scale
Git was designed for humans. A developer opens a branch, writes some code over a few hours, opens a pull request, and waits for review. That cadence is measured in hours and days. AI agents work differently: dozens or hundreds of them can be cloning, branching, committing, and rebasing the same codebase simultaneously, in seconds.
Origin is built around the assumption that lots of AI agents will be cloning, branching, committing, rebasing, reviewing, and fixing failures in parallel. That is a fundamentally different load profile than anything GitHub was architected to handle. GitHub was built for human-scale development, and Origin is being framed around the next bottleneck: coordinating, reviewing, and safely merging agent-generated code at massive scale.
The demo numbers Cursor showed on stage made the ambition concrete. Live demo numbers showed 22.6 commits per second inside one repo, plus hundreds of thousands of clones and pushes hourly -- throughput that would stress any existing Git hosting infrastructure.
The Graphite piece that makes this click
Origin did not appear out of nowhere. The engineering team behind it came from Graphite, a code review startup Cursor acquired. Founded by Merrill Lutsky, Greg Foster, and Tomas Reimers, Graphite is known for its "stacked pull request" workflow, which allows developers to manage multiple dependent code changes in parallel. Tomas Reimers was the one on stage demoing Origin.
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