Cloudflare argues GitHub was built for humans writing code, but the next generation of software will be built by agents — fixing bugs, building features, writing tests, reviewing changes, and doing maintenance at scale.
The company launched Artifacts earlier this year as a versioned filesystem speaking Git that can scale to millions of repositories, designed as programmable primitives for developers to build their own products and workflows.
With Artifacts now in open beta, Cloudflare is holding a competition to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare using Workers and Artifacts. They want entrants to rethink repositories, branches, pull requests, code review, and merge conflicts for an agentic era — not GitHub with agents bolted on. Minimum requirement: multiple agents working on changes concurrently.
New capabilities since launch include: deploying Artifacts repos to Workers via Workers Builds with automatic preview environments; managing Artifacts directly from Workers using bindings to fork repos and issue Git tokens; event subscriptions for push/create/fork events to trigger CI or review agents; EU/US data jurisdiction for namespaces; and dashboard metrics for operations, pulls, pushes, and errors.
Artifacts pricing based on repository operations and stored data begins billing October 15, 2026.
Competition submissions require a 5-10 minute demo video, open-source code under MIT/Apache/BSD, and run instructions. Deadline: October 14, 2026. Top three teams fly to San Francisco for Cloudflare Connect; first place receives $25,000 in Cloudflare credits.
Example code shows forking a project for an agent task, reading AGENTS.md for instructions, and subscribing to push events to start review workflows.