Cursor Sees Opening as GitHub Flounders

<p><b>Microsoft's</b> <b>GitHub</b> unit has been on the defensive lately. Amid a series of outages and other snags, <b>Jay Parikh</b>, who oversees the software-project management platform, recently warned deputies that coding tools from <b>Cursor</b> and <b>Anthropic</b> could eventually make GitHub obsolete, my colleague Aaron <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-executives-sound-alarm-githubs-eroding-ai-lead">wrote this week</a>.</p><p>Parikh was right to be worried. According to someone with knowledge of the effort, Cursor is working on software aimed at replacing some of the core functions of GitHub. Cursor intends to announce the software this summer.</p><p>The Cursor effort, codenamed <b>Origin</b>, aims to provide versions of the repositories that GitHub hosts for storing software projects, as well as features including security reviews, automated actions like scheduled testing, update-management processes that avoid disruptions, and integrations with other software. Engineers from <b>Graphite</b>, a code-review startup that Cursor acquired last year, are spearheading the project.</p>