Reference · September 2026
Forge comparisons score freedom, governance and footprint — and not one row mentions agents, bots or rate limits. This table is the missing axis: what a host does for you once agents write most of the code. The first column is the one we are building.
| Agent axis | githug Gateway | Entire | Cursor Origin | OneDev | SourceHut | Forgejo / Codeberg | Gitea | GitLab | GitHub |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server | ◆ | ? | ◐ | ◐ | ○ | ◐ | ● | ● | ● |
| Agent identity + quotas | ◐ | ○ | ◐ | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Provenance per commit | ◐ | ● | ? | ? | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ◐ |
| AI policy enforced at push | ◆ | ○ | ◐ | ◐ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Stacks + merge queue | ◆ | ○ | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Sandbox + lazy checkout | ◆ | ◐ | ? | ◐ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Same features self-hosted | ◆ | ◐ | ○ | ● | ○ | ◐ | ● | ● | ○ |
| AI-written code | welcome | welcome | welcome | welcome | banned | banned | neutral | paid credits | paid credits |
Scored from public docs, September 2026. Hover a row for what it means. githug Gateway is in open beta, not a finished product.
Paste this to your coding agent. A human approves one code on github.com; the agent does the rest.
Set up githug for owner/repo: run `curl -fsSL https://githug.ai/install | sh`, then `hug init --repo owner/repo --json`. Show me any code or link it prints and wait for it to finish.
Quickstart · Set it up yourself · free during the beta
| Product | Hosting | Licence | Agents |
|---|---|---|---|
| githug Gateway | Hosted or self-hosted | Service AGPL-3.0; CLI Apache-2.0 | A layer in front of the remote you already use. Open beta. source |
| Entire | Hosted network; self-hosting promised | Client tools MIT | Regional mirrors for agent clones; transcripts stored with commits. Waitlist. source |
| Cursor Origin | Hosted only (beta) | Proprietary | Stacked PRs, agent-aware merge queue. Hosted only, GitHub stays the record. source |
| OneDev | Self-hosted only | MIT + commercial EE | "AI users" as teammates that implement issues and review PRs. Free edition. source |
| SourceHut | Hosted; self-hostable | AGPLv3 | Terms ban LLM-assisted content from 10 Sept 2026. source |
| Forgejo / Codeberg | Codeberg.org; self-hosted | GPLv3+ | Bans AI-generated contributions and AI-majority repos (2026). source |
| Gitea | Gitea Cloud; single binary, Docker, Helm | MIT (core) | No AI features in core. Official gitea-mcp server. source |
| GitLab | SaaS; self-managed | CE MIT, EE proprietary | Duo Agent Platform on SaaS and self-managed, on Premium+ credits. source |
| GitHub | Hosted; Enterprise Server self-hosted | Proprietary | Agent HQ and the Copilot coding agent, cloud only. Not on Enterprise Server. source |