GitHub's former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key takeaways Entire launched a decentralized Git network built for agents.The company plans to open-source its backend. Coding agents are on the rise and pressurizing networks. A new developer platform called Entire thinks it has the fix for an increasingly unreliable GitHub, and the pressure vibe coding puts on it: a decentralized Git network.And who's at the helm? GitHub's former CEO, Thomas Dohmke.GitHub has suffered many an outage in recent months as vibe coding has exploded and coding agents have overrun the centralized platform and its US-based servers. When an outage strikes, developers around the world have to put their work on pause. As coding agents show no signs of slowing down, GitHub is trying to scale up and meet demand, but it's unclear whether GitHub can keep pace.Available in preview starting Wednesday, Entire's distributed Git network allows developers to host repositories from various points across the world. As with any decentralized network, the idea is that multiple hubs both distribute risk and improve speed and developer experience, especially for those tired of being beholden to GitHub. Entire works with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other popular coding agents, and stores session data alongside code. Also: How I stopped a massive WordPress spam attack with 4,700 lines of code in two days - thanks to Codex and Claude "The preview lets developers mirror an existing GitHub repository onto Entire in one step: their code stays where it is, while their agents clone and pull from a regional Entire mirror," the announcement explained. "This offloads heavy, concurrent read traffic so agents can build without rate limits."To get a bit more technical, Entire included some initial testing data demonstrating how fast it runs. The platform supported about 570,000 clones per hour from one repository, simulating 200 clients "shallow-cloning" from European cities, including Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Dublin, in about 3 minutes. Via its Git Push feature, which sends changes to the shared repo, Entire maintained 586 pushes per second -- roughly 2.1 million an hour -- to a single branch or repo. Also: Anthropic's Claude Cowork heads to the cloud as data shows 90% of sessions aren't for codingThe company compared that number to Cursor Origin, a newly announced platform similarly designed for agent-first coding, which said it could run 81,360 pushes per hour in a recent keynote. "Built for swarms of agents to push and pull code and changes from the network, Entire is currently benchmarking up to 25x ahead of other Git competitors' claims," an Entire representative told ZDNET via email. Built for agentic coding Beyond the known benefits of decentralization, Entire is eyeing the rapidly expanding state of coding, which is seeing a massive influx of agent activity. The company said it offers a "semantic memory layer" that catches agent mistakes and gives developers more visibility into the software agents are writing. With features like Blame and Review, Entire said it can surface who last edited a line of code and why, or prompt multiple agents to reflect on an action, respectively.The company added that it will soon let programmers "host new public and private repositories natively" and will completely decentralize its network, "enabling data residency, sovereignty, and scale in any region."How to try it Entire's Git network has servers in the US, EU, and Australia, but anyone can use them or mirror into multiple regions at once. Developers can join the waitlist now.A note about venture-capital-backed platforms, though: There's always risk in building on top of a service that could lose funding and shut down without much warning, so proceed with caution.