origin-api

Origin API

The docs are the source of truth. Do not name an endpoint, scope, event slug, header, or limit from memory. Where this file and the docs disagree, the docs win.

The docs live under https://cursor.com/docs/api/origin/. llms.txt is the index and links every section, endpoint, and webhook payload. openapi.yaml is the contract, and "Endpoint reference" explains its x-origin-* extensions. llms-full.txt is the whole reference in one file. changelog says what moved. For one question, start at llms.txt and fetch only the section that answers it. llms-full.txt and openapi.yaml are each several hundred kilobytes, too large to read into context whole. When you need all of them, as a porting brief does, save them locally if you can, outside any repository you are working in, search them for the section heading or annotation you need, and read only the matching part. Cite operationIds and section names.

Rules to check first

1. Native or mirror. A repository is either native (created on Origin) or a GitHub mirror. On a native repository an installation has its full scopes and every write. On a GitHub mirror, every event except repository.pushed still arrives, every call beyond metadata and contents reads returns 403, and merging a pull request or changing the default branch is not available ("Mirrored repositories", "Events").
2. Subscribe. Only installation.* events arrive without a subscription. A missing subscription produces silence, not an error ("Events").
3. Verify, dedupe, acknowledge. Verify the signature over the raw body before parsing, dedupe on the delivery ID, return 2xx, then process ("Signature verification", "Retries", "Automatic disable"). Origin signs a digest, which Standard Webhooks does not, so a generic verifier fails.
4. Scopes from the spec. Request the union of x-origin-scopes.scopes over the operations the app calls ("Scopes").
5. Opaque tokens and IDs. Do not build or parse page tokens or IDs ("Pagination", "IDs").

One section name the index does not make obvious: what happens to a check-run post that arrives out of order is under "Ordering writes".

Porting an existing GitHub App: use port-github-app-to-origin in this plugin.