Cursor began shipping Origin, its code-hosting platform, to paying customers on Monday. Hours later, GitHub suffered an outage that lasted roughly seven hours.

Origin ships as GitHub's status page lights up

Cursor's paid users received the rollout Monday morning. About three and a half hours later, GitHub's incident log recorded a global degradation that persisted for more than six hours.

Error rates reached roughly 20% across pull requests, issues, and the API, and climbed toward 50% for archive and raw file downloads. The disruption also took down enterprise sign-on, including SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, Team Sync, and Copilot. The breadth of the disruption shows how much of the modern development stack — authentication, continuous integration, code review, and AI tooling — now runs through a single provider.

Product launches are booked weeks in advance, and there is no evidence that Cursor engineered the overlap. Even so, the timing amounted to a marketing bonanza for the company. Matt Palmer of Cursor quote-tweeted the launch, saying the team had wanted to ship earlier, but GitHub was down.

Vercel's chief executive, Guillermo Rauch, said on X that developers can now host their repositories on Origin and deploy to Vercel, noting that Origin was online — unlike GitHub. Asked why he was smiling, Rauch said he was trying to make light of the fact that Vercel itself was stuck because of the GitHub outage.

Even with the new platform, pushes still go to GitHub, which remains the definitive source for everything that originated there. Permissions are identical to GitHub's read/write permissions. Pull requests are synced between Cursor and GitHub — a comment added in Cursor will appear in GitHub, and vice versa. According to Cursor's blog, a team's GitHub repositories can live alongside Cursor-hosted ones. For now, that makes Origin an incremental adoption rather than a rip-and-replace migration.

Graphite's co-founder now runs Origin

Cursor brings agents, code, and pull requests together in one place: a developer can send the agent a review comment, and the agent then edits the pull request. Vercel builds a live preview of every pull request, while Depot and Buildkite run the builds. Existing GitHub Actions workflows work as-is, with no rewriting required. The launch extends Cursor's remit from AI-assisted editing into the infrastructure layer GitHub already covers with Actions, Copilot, and its own code review.

Cursor acquired Graphite, a code-review company, in December 2025 at a price far above its $290 million Series B valuation. Graphite built stacked pull requests, and its co-founder, Tomas Reimers, now leads Origin. He first unveiled the product at Cursor's Compile conference in June. The premise draws on Google's 2025 DORA report — an annual benchmarking survey of engineering organizations, based on nearly 5,000 professionals — which found that writing code requires extensive reviewing.

GitHub recorded 257 outages over the past year, a series of failures tied to "a visible exodus of high-profile users." Cursor is establishing Origin to take advantage of that frustration.

As of last October, GitHub had roughly 180 million developers. GitHub's own Octoverse 2025 count showed 180 million developers, 630 million repositories, and 43.2 million pull requests merged each month, up 23% year over year. GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, remains the world's largest source code host. Against a base of that size, the rollout's current reach — paying Cursor customers — will be the first test of whether challenger hosting gains meaningful adoption.