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Origin was announced by Tomas Reimers of Cursor/Graphite (shared by swyx) on…

Brief

Origin, announced by Cursor/Graphite’s Tomas Reimers and amplified by swyx on 2026-06-16, is presented as a long‑awaited Git competitor. It targets scalability for agent workloads, offers extensibility through an API and “mcp,” and promises native handling of merge conflicts and co‑failure resolution among agents.

Why it matters

Origin was announced by Tomas Reimers of Cursor/Graphite (shared by swyx) on 2026-06-16.

Key details

  • Origin is billed as a Git competitor designed to be scalable for agent workloads, extensible via an API and “mcp,” and to include built-in merge conflict handling and co-failure agent resolution.
Source evidence

Extremely excited for Origin.

swyx (@swyx)

Cursor/Graphite’s @TomasReimers just announced Origin

@cursor_ai’s long awaited Git competitor, scalable for agent workloads, extensible with api and mcp, and built in merge conflicts and co failure agent resolution

— https://nitter.net/swyx/status/2066928345246470204#m