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runetes/maiao hit 95 points on August 25, an MIT-licensed tool turning each commit into its own independently reviewed pull request. It auto-detects the provider from the remote URL: GitHub with native stack support, GitLab with auto-detected stacks, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and Cursor Origin in beta. That last one is the signal. A week after Cursor shipped Origin, a third-party review tool treats it as a first-class forge alongside GitHub, which is exactly how a hosting monopoly starts leaking.
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