Cloudflare opened a competition to build a new Git platform on Artifacts, with a $25,000 prize and an October 14 deadline
Cloudflare opened a competition to build a new Git platform on its Artifacts service, with $25,000 in credits for the winner and a submission deadline of October 14, 2026.
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Why it mattersRunning many coding agents on one repo today ends in merge pain, so a Git platform that treats concurrent branches as the default could change how a team moves work through code review.
Running three coding agents on the same repo today ends with three branches, three pull requests, and a human stitching the pieces back together.
Cloudflare posted a competition on October 1, 2026 inviting developers to build the next Git platform on top of its Artifacts service, with $25,000 in Cloudflare credits for the winner and a submission deadline of October 14. Dina Kozlov and Zebulon Piasecki wrote the post on the Cloudflare blog, and the submission form sits at cloudflare.com/git-competition.
What Artifacts gives entrants
Cloudflare says Artifacts is "a versioned filesystem that speaks Git and can scale to millions of repositories". The post lists what entrants can use: programmable repository creation and forking, versioned storage for code and agent context, standard Git operations, Workers Builds for automated runs, Workers bindings to call the repo from code, event subscriptions when a repo changes, and a choice of U.S. or EU data jurisdiction. The whole thing is driven from a Cloudflare Worker, so an entry can hold its logic, its scheduling, and its storage in the same account.
The brief
The two authors are open about what they want to see. From the post: "we want to see multiple agents working on changes concurrently. Beyond that, we want you to get creative, what you think comes next." The ideas they list are specific: rethink repositories, branches, pull requests, worktrees, code review, and merge conflicts, or build new ways to preserve agent context, compare multiple changes at once, and decide which one should ship. A rebuilt copy of GitHub with an agents tab is not what they are asking for.
Submissions must include a 5 to 10 minute video showing what the entry does for agents and developers, a link to source code under MIT, Apache or BSD, and instructions for running it. The competition page says three finalist teams are announced on October 16, and Cloudflare flies up to two members of each team to its Connect conference in San Francisco. First place gets the $25,000 in credits and an invitation to the VIP speaker dinner on the Monday night of Connect.
A team building this is working in the territory a lot of teams have hit this year: a coding agent that produces a dozen branches by Friday afternoon, and nobody to review them before Monday. Cloudflare is not pretending it has the answer; it is paying developers to try. The $25,000 is in Cloudflare credits, so the prize is also an invitation to keep running the thing on Cloudflare after you win.
Source
- Cloudflare blog: We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
- Competition page: cloudflare.com/git-competition
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