Graphite’s stacked-diff workflow is joining Cursor’s AI editor - a tighter loop between code, review, and agents

Graphite - the stacked PR and review workflow tool - is joining Cursor, the AI-first code editor. What’s notable here isn’t another “AI meets IDE” headline, but a concrete bridge between authoring code and managing changes at the granularity of commits and stacks. Graphite popularized stack-native workflows (small, linked PRs, fast rebases, streamlined landings). Cursor brings an agentic editor that already understands repositories. Put together, you get fewer context switches and a cleaner source of truth for AI to act on: diffs, branches, and review state.

Under the hood, this points to first-class stack operations inside the editor (create/split/rebase/land), PR metadata generation from context, and review actions triggered where code is written. That’s technically meaningful because LLMs perform better when anchored to structured change sets instead of free-form project state. The bigger picture is consolidation: dev tools are moving from bolt-on plugins to vertically integrated environments that span edit, review, and ship. Worth noting: Graphite has been GitHub-first, so compatibility with existing PR pipelines and enterprise policies will matter; if that carries through, teams get stack-native speed without abandoning GitHub. For competitors, this ups the bar against Copilot-in-VS Code, GitHub PRs, and Atlassian stacks by folding change management into the editor, not the browser.