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Cursor Origin is a Git-based code hosting platform built into Cursor, offering repositories, pull requests, and code browsing and search.
Origin's staged beta and a six-hour-42-minute GitHub incident landed in the same news cycle. The useful takeaway is not a migration plan, it is knowing where your code lives when the host is gone.
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Origin arrives opt-out on every paid Cursor plan with no published terms on retention, residency or training use. GitHub's reliability record is what makes the pitch land.
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Cursor's Rollouts bot follows a pull request into production and grades the deploy against a plan it wrote when the PR opened. Its third verdict, inconclusive, is what you get when the signals were never instrumented.
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Cursor's new Git host keeps GitHub as the source of truth for synced repos while holding a browsable copy next to its agents. The only org-level control described at launch is an Enterprise opt-out.
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Origin is in early beta, and the man who leads it says it does nothing GitHub does not, which makes the sync design and the default-on switch the parts of this launch worth an engineering leader's afternoon.
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Origin keeps GitHub as the source of truth. That is both the reason engineering orgs can try it this quarter and the reason it is not yet an exit.
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