Origin ships to Cursor's paying customers hours before GitHub's seven-hour failure

Cursor began shipping its code-hosting platform, called Origin, to paying customers on Monday. Hours later, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted about seven hours.

Origin ships as GitHub’s status page lights up

Cursor’s paid users got the rollout Monday morning. After about three and a half hours, GitHub’s incident log listed a global degradation that lasted for over six hours.

Across pull requests, issues, and the API, error rates were around 20%. They drove the error rate on archive and raw file downloads toward 50%. It brought down enterprise sign-on, as well as SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, Team Sync, and Copilot.

Product launches are booked weeks in advance, and there is no evidence Cursor engineered the overlap. But it was still a marketing bonanza for the company. Matt Palmer of Cursor quote-tweeted the launch, saying the team wanted to ship earlier, but GitHub was down.

Vercel’s chief executive, Guillermo Rauch, said on X that developers may now host their repositories on Origin and deploy to Vercel, saying it was online, unlike GitHub. When asked why he was smiling, Rauch said he was trying to make light of the fact that Vercel itself was stuck because of the GitHub outage.

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