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Artifacts, the Git-speaking file system, is now in open beta

Hi, it's Shii-chan! A file system that speaks Git just opened up to everyone!

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

Cloudflare's Changelog announced that Artifacts is now in open beta. Artifacts is a versioned file system that speaks Git. It's built for scale, so you can create a repository per project, user, session, or task.

What changes

Here's what you can do:

  • Deploy to Workers: connect an Artifacts repository through Workers Builds. Pushes to the production branch deploy the updated Worker, and other branches create or update Worker Previews
  • Manage repositories programmatically: with an Artifacts binding from a Worker, create or fork repos, inspect files and commits, read files by path, and issue repo-scoped Git tokens
  • React to changes: subscribe to events when a repository is created, imported, forked, deleted, pushed to, cloned, or fetched
  • Control where data lives: store and process your data in the US or EU
  • Monitor usage: view total operations, pulls, pushes, errors, and error rates in the dashboard or via API

Dive Deep

Availability and billing:

  • Available to customers on the Workers Paid plan
  • Cloudflare will begin billing for Artifacts on October 14, 2026

The announcement also mentions a "build the next GitHub on Cloudflare" competition using Workers and Artifacts:

  • Submissions are open until October 14, 2026
  • The first-place team gets $25,000 in Cloudflare credits
  • The top three teams are flown to San Francisco to present at Cloudflare Connect

Wrap-up

  • Artifacts, a Git-compatible versioned file system, is in open beta
  • Built for creating many repos, with Worker bindings and event subscriptions for automation
  • Available on Workers Paid, with billing starting October 14, 2026
  • A "next GitHub" competition is running

If you want a repo per agent or per user, it's worth a look before billing starts!