Cloudflare Wants You to Build the Next Git Platform for AI Agents
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is challenging developers to build the next Git platform for the agentic era using its Artifacts service, now in open beta. Artifacts provides programmable Git repositories that scale to millions, with new features like Workers integration, event subscriptions, and data jurisdiction. The competition, open until October 14, 2026, asks for a system where multiple AI agents work concurrently on code. Top prizes include a trip to Cloudflare Connect and $25,000 in credits.
We aren’t looking for GitHub as it exists today with agents added on top. At a minimum, we want to see multiple agents working on changes concurrently.
- btown
Sometimes I think back to Google Wave, that beautiful glimmer of real-time collaborative canvases, announced in 2009 when Angular and Backbone hadn't even been invented, and think it launched almost two decades too early.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=3850
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa09/tech/slides/berli...
We're now in a world where we expect real-time interfaces to be developed and immediately deployed for our feedback by agents, in business-critical settings where classic SDLC timelines are far too slow, but code quality is becoming more difficult to manage at scale.
Git, at its core, is a fundamental notion that behavior is an auditable tree of immutable changes, where any participant can rearrange or rewind or remix this sequence on a local machine to show, and interact with, a provisional combination of those changes.
Google Wave, with its operational transformation (OT) and federation systems, was similar in many regards. We have CRDTs now, and far better techniques for auto-merging workstreams - including agentic systems that can resolve conflicts intelligently!
Wave fundamentally had a concept that people would come together and evolve a simple chat interface, into a customized real-time application for their use cases, and that that iteration could happen in real-time, with data and behavior both evolving in collaboration with bots. Wherever Git and the broader notion of SDLC goes, I hope it brings the best of t […]
- Animats
We want to have less, not more, dependence on Cloudflare.
Single point of failure, for both technical and political failures.
- camcil
$25k to build the next GitHub for $125B company? How generous.
- hmokiguess
If it’s for agents why don’t you make this a challenge towards them? What sort of human element is desired here?
- timcobb
Cloudflare gets so much action on here, and the product they've put out the last 6-12 months has been pretty underwhelming in my opinion. Sometimes, as in this case, obnoxious even. A lot of it (most of it?) feels vibe-coded and derivative, just take whatever is big now or last month and throw "edge" on top. Anyone care for a moltworker?