Cursor shipped Origin on August 17, 2026, a code hosting service built into the editor itself, in early beta on every paid plan. It is the first time Cursor stores the actual repository instead of just editing a copy that lives on GitHub.
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Cursor spent three years being the smartest way to edit code that lived somewhere else. That just changed. On August seventeenth, Cursor shipped Origin, its own code hosting service, and now the repository can sit inside the editor instead of on GitHub. It's in early beta on every paid plan. You make a repo, you push over the CLI, and your pull requests show the timeline, the commits, the checks, the files changed. GitHub repos still work. Comments sync both directions in seconds. But the real design choice is underneath. Review state and merge state are built to be read by agents, not just by people. And here's the part nobody planned. The morning Origin launched, GitHub went down for six hours and forty two minutes, its seventh incident in fifteen days. Cursor could not have timed it better.