GitHub outage disrupts Cursor's new Git platform and AI agents
GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform
A GitHub degradation caused service issues for Cursor's Automations, Cloud Agents, Review Agents, and Codebase features, as well as its new Origin Git platform. Cursor's status page reported the incident on August 17, 2026, with recovery signs appearing within hours. The outage was linked to GitHub's own status page, and Cursor resolved the incident after monitoring service health.
We are investigating a service degradation affecting Automations, Cloud Agents, Review Agents and Codebase related to a GitHub degradation reported in GitHub's status page.
- TowerTall
I just opened cursor and was presented with a modal dialog with a "Try Origin" button and zero option to dismiss it. Had to nuke the cursor process to get it to go away. At least they didn't show it again at relaunch.
- johntash
I assume it's talking about syncing/migrating from github -> origin? And not that github is hte actual upstream of origin? That would be great though
- techgnosis
So they announce this to try and take people away from GitHub, but it also depended on GitHub? Am I reading this irony correctly?