Cursor, a software development company, has launched a Git repository service named Origin that stores a write‑ahead log in Amazon S3 and maintains a local NVMe reference copy. The approach, described by principal systems engineer Vicent Martí, aims to reduce the latency associated with synchronizing multiple repository replicas and to handle the high volume of code changes generated by AI agents.

Martí notes that modern development workflows involve many small, temporary repositories created by agents, which strain traditional Git servers that rely on multiple synchronized copies on fast storage. By using object storage as the source of truth and keeping a local cache, Origin can ingest pushes as fast as the local disk permits while still allowing Git to perform DAG traversal on the local drive rather than over the network.

The beta version of Origin is available to paid Cursor users. While the system still requires DAG traversal for many operations, early testing indicates that local storage mitigates network bottlenecks and improves overall scalability. Further production testing will determine how widely the architecture can be adopted.