Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
by skissane on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:14PM
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Are there any plans for compatibility with GitHub's APIs?
I have a lot of dev tooling which assumes code is stored on public GitHub and/or GitHubEnterprise. This produces some degree of lock-in, in that all that code would have to be rewritten to migrate to something else. (Yes, AIs can help, but they still don't make migration effortless.)
The major Git hosters tend to implement roughly the same concepts, albeit with lots of little variations. It would be great if there were some sort of standardised API everyone implemented. In the absence of that, it makes sense for people to emulate the incumbent's APIs as a de facto standard, just like how other vendors copy OpenAI's APIs for talking to LLMs.
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
by justincormack on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:55PM
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It seems to have 2 way sync of PRs, issues, issue comments etc, so it must be pretty much the same data model, so they could probably have a compatible API.
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
by zerotolerance on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:21PM
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Experimenting with your "scalability?" mean?
We wanted to release a beta so people could start experimenting with our scalability and extensibility themselves. Over the next few weeks, you can expect a handful of features starting to change source control to better understand and work with agents.