Cursor announced that its cloud coding agents can run on customer-managed machine pools that autoscale with demand. The agent loop stays in Cursor while workers gain access to internal services or specialized hardware, with support for sandboxes including AWS Lambda, Cloudflare, E2B, Modal, and Vercel.

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  • ✓Moves agent execution onto customer-owned or hosted machines so agents can reach internal services and specialized hardware
  • ✓Autoscaling machine pools keep the Cursor-orchestrated agent loop while private environments stay in place
  • ✓The same week Cursor added Claude Fable 5.1 (73.4% on CursorBench 3.2 at max effort) and Gemini 3.8 Flash
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