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Home › Engineering › Why Anthropic Replaced Git With Scion Engineering deep dive · Version control Why Anthropic Replaced Git With Scion: The Reasons, the Architecture, and What Every Developer Should Learn AI agents now write code faster than Git was built to move it. Here's the full story of why Anthropic built its own version control system, how Scion works layer by layer, and which ideas you can use in your own repo today. By Zubair Hussain , Full Stack Developer · October 19, 2026 · 14 min read Why Anthropic replaced Git with Scion Illustration: on the left, a tangled Git branch graph with many full repository copies. On the right, a calm tiered Scion architecture with one server, regional caches and many AI agents. ENGINEERING DEEP DIVE When agents outgrew Git Inside Anthropic's Scion version control system scion-server scion-cache scion-cache zubairhussain.xyz Git spreads the whole rep...

Developer Tools / Git Hosting Cursor Origin vs GitHub: Is Cursor's New Git Hosting a Real GitHub Alternative in 2026? Cursor now has its own Git hosting platform, Origin. The beta arrived during a rough day for GitHub, which made the timing look more dramatic than the history really was. Origin had already been announced months earlier, and Cursor says the underlying infrastructure had been in development for much longer. By Zubair thezubairh@gmail.com 26 August 2026 12 min read Quick answer Cursor Origin is a real Git forge, but it is not a mature GitHub replacement yet. In its early beta it can host repositories, work with standard Git, mirror GitHub repositories, handle pull requests, browse code, and connect Cursor agents. GitHub still has the much deeper ecosystem around CI/CD, issues, open-source collaboration, integrations, and long-term operational history. [1] [2] The main point The interesting story is not “Curs...