--- title: "Cursor Overnight \"Took Down\" GitHub" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/296158728.md" description: "Amid a sudden major outage at GitHub, Cursor seized the opportunity to launch Origin, a code hosting platform designed specifically for AI Agents. Supporting one-click mirroring and detachment from GitHub, along with features like stacked PRs and AI-powered automatic conflict resolution, it completely disrupts traditional workflows designed for humans. GitHub has now become Cursor's ultimate target" datetime: "2026-08-18T00:38:35.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/296158728.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/296158728.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/296158728.md) --- # Cursor Overnight "Took Down" GitHub Today, programmers worldwide collectively experienced an "absurd drama." At 9:40 AM Eastern Time, GitHub suffered a complete outage, taking down Copilot entirely as well. For seven full hours, with core services paralyzed for three of them, developers came to a standstill—unable to pull code or use AI tools... ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/9eda3476-7972-4579-bb32-eff7b4ac47e5.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/ab39243c-d90c-48c7-ae6e-4dd78e48cfa3.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) Coincidentally, today was also the day Cursor officially declared war on GitHub! Following its formal integration into SpaceXAI, the original team unveiled a brand new **"Code Hosting Platform" called Origin.** ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/8fce8423-e215-47fb-b3cf-7a83c863cdaf.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) What exactly is Origin? Here are the key highlights: - Positioning: A Git code hosting platform designed specifically for the Agent era, deeply integrated with the Cursor editor - Core Capabilities: Stacked PRs, merge queues, machine-readable review status, MCP protocol support, event-driven automation - Compatibility: Real-time two-way synchronization with GitHub, requiring no changes to existing workflows ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/4a0f9157-6257-46bd-9993-0e30b0a8cf1d?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) Starting today, the Origin beta is open to all Pro, Teams, and Enterprise paid users. Previously, it was thought that Cursor only aimed to replace VS Code, but now it appears that **GitHub is its true "ultimate target."** Almost simultaneously, Microsoft's stock price dropped by over 3%, wiping out more than $112 billion in market value in an instant. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/6992048c-accb-448c-b28f-f6039078ce87.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) ## The Cursor Version of GitHub Is Live Origin is not merely "storing a copy of code in the Cursor cloud"; it is a complete git hosting platform. The early beta version offers extensive functionality— Creating repositories, performing standard git clone/push/pull operations, synchronizing repositories from GitHub, browsing and searching code in the browser, opening PRs, reviewing, merging, and managing permissions. **It has essentially rebuilt the entire suite of GitHub's core functions.** ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/86d5772d-8b83-4dc7-8f40-7145127c55fc.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) Usage is straightforward: click "+New" on the new Codebase tab to create a repository. The page directly instructs you on how to install the CLI and push your local project. The name you assign to the codebase for the first time becomes part of each repository's URL, for example, cursor.com/codebase/acme-corp. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/f7a891ee-d584-410c-a7cc-6df641d415e5.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) **AI Automatic Merging, Eliminating the Need for Human Review** Like GitHub, every code repository in Origin has PRs, with three main highlight features. - **Stacked PRs** Stacked PRs allow a large change to be split into multiple smaller PRs, stacked according to dependencies, which Origin displays via a visual dependency graph. This is crucial for Agents. Agents naturally tend to make bulk code changes; modifying 50 files at once is common. Putting them all in one PR? Human reviewers would be overwhelmed. Stacked PRs solve this problem by breaking it down. - **Merge Queues** If ten Agents in a repository each modify a batch of code and submit their own PRs, and all CI checks pass successfully, the question arises: Which one should be merged first? After merging one, can the test results of the remaining nine still be trusted? Traditional GitHub handles this situation painfully, often leading to merge conflicts, CI reruns, and repeated rebasing. Origin's merge queue automatically sorts and detects conflicts, ensuring the main branch always remains green in CI. Even more aggressively, when encountering conflicting branches spanning dozens of files, Origin has a built-in AI engine at the merge layer to automatically resolve conflicts, eliminating the need for human intervention. - **Machine-Readable Review Status** GitHub's review status is essentially designed for humans, consisting of a green checkmark and some comment text. For an Agent to determine whether a PR can be merged, it must parse the comment content. Origin structures the review status as a structured API, allowing Agents to read and write directly without guessing. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/b7ac4cdc-96e7-4d4a-b1e5-49b4dd0808fd?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) **One Click to Empty GitHub** Most importantly, there is no need to migrate old projects, as Origin supports direct mirroring of GitHub repositories. Git history, branches, and tags are all transferred, and PRs can be synchronized bidirectionally. Upon initial synchronization, GitHub remains the source of truth. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/606b3a45-66a7-4fc7-9cf5-727557ff2a06?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) Simply put, while the same code can exist in many places, there must be one authoritative version: who prevails in case of disagreement, where CI pulls from, and which version is recognized for deployment. Over the past twenty years, the "source of truth" for the vast majority of teams worldwide has been held by GitHub. Now, Origin has completely disrupted this landscape. **By simply clicking "Detach from GitHub"**, Origin takes the initiative, becoming the true "code headquarters"! ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/11730363-f24f-4a02-9c65-18c9355d612e.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) This demonstrates that it is not merely wrapping GitHub with a Cursor skin. It is genuinely building its own "foundation." This time, Origin has also integrated with the App ecosystem, initially connecting with Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite. Vercel handles automatic preview deployments for each PR; Depot and Buildkite handle CI, and both can run your existing GitHub Actions workflows. **A Foundation Built for Agents** Furthermore, Origin natively supports MCP, allowing Agents to drive the entire forge like calling an API, not limited to the IDE. Performance data is tailored for Agents. With 296,000 clones per hour, 81,000 pushes, 22.6 commits per second, global synchronization latency under 400 milliseconds, and automatic failover in 10 milliseconds. Twenty-two commits per second may sound absurd, but it is just sufficient for an army of Agents. ## Humans Are No Longer the Main Force in Coding The fundamental reason Cursor is building Origin is that GitHub can no longer keep up with the speed of Agents. In March this year, Truell revealed an internal figure: 35%-40% of PRs merged in Cursor were autonomously completed by Agents on cloud virtual machines. In other words, Agents create their own branches, commit their own code, and open their own PRs. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/a4e607a7-9983-4d8e-9eba-a8b26b32f426.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) In contrast, GitHub's workflow, designed in 2008, is fundamentally built for "humans." One person writes code, one or two others review it, waiting in line for merging, with rhythms measured in hours and days. But clearly, Agents do not operate on this schedule; dozens may swarm into a single repository simultaneously, operating on a timescale of seconds. Origin is built for this reality. Code, PRs, and Agents reside in the same place. When writing code in Cursor, Agents can directly modify code, update PRs, and push branches without switching to another platform. ## So, Should You Move Today? Don't rush. In the short term, no team will move their core projects away from GitHub entirely. If you are already using Cursor's cloud Agents for background tasks, it is worth trying Origin. Moreover, the migration cost is nearly zero; simply click "Detach from GitHub" in the repository settings, and the roles reverse. ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://wpimg-wscn.awtmt.com/82664053-59ce-4cdb-a536-aa214de2dc85.jpeg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) SpaceXAI researchers directly challenged the status quo: GitHub is down, why not check out Origin! On the day GitHub went down, Cursor opened its doors to users. The next time GitHub goes down, you may no longer need to wait for it to recover. 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