Ex-GitHub CEO launches distributed Git network for AI coding agents

Thomas Dohmke, the former chief executive of GitHub Microsoft Corporation ↘ 1.64%, launched a preview on Wednesday of a distributed Git network built by his startup Entire, aiming to relieve the pressure that AI coding agents place on centralized code-hosting platforms.

A Regional Mirror for Agent Workloads

The preview, open under a waitlist with active regions in the United States, Europe, and Australia, lets developers mirror an existing GitHub repository in a single step. Agents then clone and pull from a regional Entire copy rather than from the central host, offloading heavy concurrent read traffic so automated tools avoid hitting rate limits.zdnet+1

In its own benchmarks, Entire said it sustained roughly 570,000 clones per hour from a single repository, 586 pushes per second, and about 470 combined clone-and-push operations per second at a median latency of 50 to 60 milliseconds. The company said it plans to open-source both its Git backend and the benchmark suite so outsiders can verify the figures.thenextweb

"By design, Git was always meant to be distributed," Dohmke said, arguing that centralized hosting has become a constraint now that billions of agents and developers hit the same servers. The company plans to allow developers to host new public and private repositories natively in the coming months, with a longer-term vision of interconnected nodes that let teams keep code in-region for data residency while remaining part of a global system.thenextweb

Building on a Record Seed Round

Entire emerged from stealth in February 2026 with a $60 million seed round at a $300 million valuation, led by Felicis with participation from Madrona, Microsoft's M12, and Basis Set. The distributed network sits on top of the product launched at that time — a semantic memory layer that stores each agent session, prompt, and tool call alongside the code in the repository.entire+2

New features announced Wednesday include Entire Blame, which traces a code change back to the agent session and prompt that produced it, and Entire Review, which sends a branch to multiple agents for an intent-aware reading of a diff. "Session logs are now the second most important artifact in software development, and they belong in the repository alongside the code," Dohmke said.thenextweb

The Broader Bet on Decentralization

Dohmke is not alone in wagering that centralized Git hosting cannot scale for the agentic era. He has personally backed Tangled, a separate decentralized Git project, and the idea of routing around a single provider has been gaining traction across the developer ecosystem. GitHub itself froze new Copilot sign-ups earlier this year as agentic usage strained its economics.thenextweb

Entire has grown to more than 40 employees across nine countries and plans to reach 60 by year's end.thenextweb