AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into a market long dominated by GitHub.

The rollout arrived as GitHub suffered a major outage lasting more than six hours, disrupting pull requests, APIs, enterprise authentication and Copilot. Error rates approached 20% for several GitHub services and nearly 50% for archive and raw-file downloads during the incident.

The outage highlighted a problem that could help Cursor attract enterprise customers. A LeadDev analysis reported 257 GitHub incidents from May 2025 through April 2026, including 48 major incidents. GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov has acknowledged that the service needs to be redesigned to support far greater scale.

An Add-On, Not Necessarily a Replacement

Origin is built on Git and is accessible from Cursor’s desktop client as well as through a command-line interface. Developers can create repositories, manage branches and handle pull requests without leaving Cursor. Perhaps more important: Cursor’s AI agents can work directly with code stored in Origin, allowing developers to assign coding and review tasks within the same environment.

Developers do not need to leave GitHub to use Origin. Companies can connect existing GitHub organizations and make repositories available inside Origin while GitHub remains the primary repository. Permissions follow existing GitHub access settings, while pull request discussions can be synchronized between the two platforms.

That approach lowers the barrier to trying Origin. Moving an enterprise software organization away from GitHub can affect continuous integration systems, security controls, audit records and deployment processes. Cursor instead allows development teams to add Origin without immediately replacing their existing infrastructure.

Origin also launched with integrations for Vercel, Depot and Buildkite. The Vercel connection can create preview deployments from pull requests, while Depot and Buildkite support existing GitHub Actions workflows. Cursor said more integrations and additional features designed around AI agents are planned.

The launch follows Cursor’s December 2025 acquisition of code review startup Graphite. Graphite specialized in dev workflows built around pull requests, giving Cursor technology and expertise that fit directly into its evolution from AI coding into code review and hosting.

The bigger shift is driven by the volume of software generated with AI. Google’s 2025 DORA research, based on nearly 5,000 tech professionals, found that 90% of developers were using AI at work. GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 reported 43.2 million pull requests merged each month, 23% more than the prior year.

For enterprise customers, Origin creates new security and governance questions. Moving proprietary code onto another hosting platform requires scrutiny of data policies and security controls. The service is enabled for paid users by default, except where enterprise administrators opt out.

Those questions carry greater weight following SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor. A company already positioned inside the developer workflow can now control the editor, AI agents and repository infrastructure used to create and store proprietary software.