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Pull requests on Cursor Origin

Browse, create, approve, and merge Origin PRs, and resolve their review threads, through your signed-in origin CLI.

If the repo you have open lives on Cursor Origin (origin.cursor.com), GitLane now treats it as Origin — not as GitHub that happens to fail. You can list, read, create, approve, and merge pull requests, and resolve their review threads, using the origin CLI you already signed in with.

Clone, fetch, and push still go through ordinary git (your credential helper or SSH). You only need Origin sign-in when you open the PRs tab.

Sign in once, in the Origin CLI

  1. Install the Origin CLI if you don’t have it.
  2. In a terminal, run origin auth login.
  3. In GitLane, Settings → Accounts should show your Origin login. GitLane never asks you to paste an Origin token.

If origin isn’t on your PATH, the PRs tab tells you that — it won’t silently call gh instead.

Browse and read a pull request

  1. Open a repository whose remote is origin.cursor.com (HTTPS or SSH).
  2. Open the PRs tab. You get that repo’s Origin pull requests — title, number, and state.
  3. Select one to read the body, branches, files, commits, the diff, checks, submitted reviews, and discussion threads.

You don’t need a GitHub account for this. Numbers are Origin’s own numbers for the repository.

Create a pull request

Create one from GitLane as open or draft, the same way as on GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. From the PR header you can then Close, Reopen, or mark a draft Ready.

Approve, resolve, merge

Approve without a comment, and resolve or reopen a review thread. GitLane refreshes the thread after Origin stores the change. To reply, use Open on Codebase, which opens the pull request in Origin’s web view — GitLane doesn’t write PR comments on any forge.

To land the PR, use the merge menu: Squash and merge or a merge commit. Origin doesn’t offer rebase-and-merge, and GitLane won’t delete the head branch after merge.

Good to know

You can’t edit an Origin pull request or write a comment from GitLane. Those actions are hidden or refused outright — on an Origin repository GitLane never quietly falls back to the GitHub path.

Origin pull requests are not supported on native Windows. Use macOS, Linux, or WSL.

History, staging, and commit keep working even if you never open the PRs tab.

Shipped in GitLane v2.1.3; creating, approving, closing, checks, and reviews added in GitLane v2.2.1.

Installers: Download GitLane.

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