Cursor Launches Git Hosting Service Origin as GitHub Suffers 7-Hour Outage

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On August 17, 2026, Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own git hosting platform, to paid plan users — and roughly three hours later, GitHub experienced a near-seven-hour global outage affecting pull requests, APIs, and enterprise services. The timing was coincidental, as product launches are typically locked weeks in advance, but it underscored the argument Cursor is making about code hosting being a newly relevant decision. Origin is a git forge accessible at origin.cursor.com and integrated directly into the Cursor editor, offering repositories, pull requests, code review, and a real-time sync with existing GitHub organizations. The service stems from Cursor's December 2025 acquisition of Graphite, a stacked pull-request startup, and was unveiled at Cursor's Compile conference in June 2026 by Graphite co-founder Tomas Reimers. Origin launched as the first product released under SpaceX's ownership of Cursor's parent company Anysphere, following a $60 billion all-stock acquisition that closed on August 14, 2026.

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