GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

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GitHub service degradation affected Cursor's Origin platform and related services, prompting an incident that was investigated and resolved with recovery.

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# GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, Codebase Source: [https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv](https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv) ## Resolved The affected Cursor services have recovered\. We’re resolving this incident and will continue monitoring service health\. PostedAug17,2026\-20:40UTC ## Update We’re seeing signs of recovery, consistent with our upstream dependency’s latest status updates\. We’re continuing to monitor our service health and GitHub's upstream status \([https://www\.githubstatus\.com/](https://www.githubstatus.com/)\) PostedAug17,2026\-19:43UTC ## Update We are currently investigating this issue\. We will provide updates as more information becomes available\. PostedAug17,2026\-15:25UTC ## Investigating 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:[https://www\.githubstatus\.com/](https://www.githubstatus.com/) PostedAug17,2026\-14:34UTC This incident affected: Automations, Review Agents, Cloud Agents, and Origin\.

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