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Cursor Cloud Agents

Cloud agents run in Cursor’s harness so they can operate as a system: subscribe to PRs, Slack, or a schedule; hold a /goal until it is met; spawn subagents on isolated VMs; and take follow-up steering without interrupting the current turn. Builds pre-warm the environment so agents start ~3× faster. Hooks observe prompts, responses, thinking, subagents, and turn completion.
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2026-08-27
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Features

  • Subscriptions

    Monitor PRs, watch a Slack thread, or run scheduled tasks. Agents wake on events and can auto-subscribe to PRs they create.

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  • /goal and /loop

    Assign a long-lived objective (e.g. fix flaky tests and make CI green). Pair with /loop for recurring check-ins.

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  • Subagents on their own machines

    Subagents run on isolated VMs with clean project copies. Swarm them for independent tests.

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  • Custom modes

    Pin skills as always-on modes so agents stay focused. Select from the / menu.

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  • Steering

    Send a follow-up without interrupting the current turn. Press return twice or Send now.

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  • Builds

    Ready-to-use copies of the dev environment. Agents boot ~3× faster to first token; included with Cloud Agents.

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  • Conversation hooks

    Observe and control prompts, responses, thinking, subagents, compaction, and turn completion.

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  • Start from scratch

    Cloud Agents can start without a connected GitHub or other SCM. Cursor creates an Origin repo in the background; save with Create repo when ready.

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  • Live preview

    Port-forwards the cloud agent environment to the browser for preview and design mode.

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  • Vercel publish

    Connect a Vercel account and publish the agent build to a live URL.

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Changelog

  • Feature

    Start from scratch, without a repo

    can · Cloud Agents start without a repo

    Cloud Agents can start without a connected GitHub or other SCM. Select Start from scratch in the repo picker; Cursor creates an Origin repo in the background. Create repo saves private or internal Origin repos. Live preview port-forwards the agent environment to the browser. Connect Vercel to publish a live URL.

  • Feature

    Cloud Agents and harness improvements

    can · Cloud Agents get subscriptions, /goal, isolated subagents

    Subscriptions, custom modes, subagents on isolated VMs, /goal, steering without interruption, and expanded conversation hooks.

  • Feature

    Cloud Agents start 3× faster with Builds

    can · Cloud Agents start 3× faster with Builds

    Background-prepared environments (clone, install, install script). Fallback to last successful build. Builds tab for logs and SHAs.