Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-compatible code hosting platform
Cursor, a company known for its AI-powered code editor, has launched Origin, a platform for hosting software code. The service is designed for collaborative work on codebases, viewing and editing code, processing pull requests, and storing code in repositories, according to TechCrunch.
Origin does not require developers to abandon GitHub. Cursor states that the platform allows users to work in parallel with GitHub and synchronize repositories between the two services. According to the company, after connecting GitHub, users can select an organization, view repositories available for synchronization, and import them into Cursor.
Cursor also announced that features the company refers to as “agent native” will become available for Origin in the future, though it did not disclose any details. Additionally, it is building a broader ecosystem of applications to support code work within the platform.
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The launch of Origin came amid complaints from developers about outages and performance issues on GitHub. On the day Cursor was launched, GitHub experienced a prolonged global outage: platform functionality was impaired for over six hours, and the global error rate reportedly reached nearly 20%.
According to an analysis by LeadDev, GitHub experienced 257 outages over the course of the year. At the same time, GitHub remains the world’s largest source code hosting platform: according to the platform’s own data, as of October 2025, it was used by approximately 180 million developers.
