Tooling65d ago
Cursor cloud agents gain /goal, VM-isolated subagents, and PR-to-completion ownership
Cursor upgraded cloud agents: /goal holds a long-lived objective until it is done; subagents can run on their own VMs with isolated project copies to test parent changes or swarm independent fixes; cloud agents subscribe to PRs they open and drive them to completion, and can watch Slack threads or run scheduled jobs. Steering now waits for the next tool call instead of cutting the agent mid-action. Any skill can be pinned as a Custom Mode (always-on).
Tooling30d ago
Cursor cuts agent token costs 7% via harness: ~66% shorter system prompt, dynamic tools, cache breakpoints
Cursor (@cursor_ai) shipped agent-harness efficiency work that cut user token costs ~7% with no quality drop: trimming the system prompt ~66%, loading built-in tools on demand (prior MCP dynamic context saved 46.9% tokens in sessions that called MCP tools), explicit cache breakpoints that cut cold-cache misses 20%, and numbering only every 10th line on file reads (−1.6% cache-read tokens).
Tooling65d ago
Cursor upgrades cloud agents with per-subagent VMs, /goal, and event-driven PR completion
Cursor shipped a cloud-agent update focused on long-running, event-driven work. Cloud agents can pick up tasks from events, hold a goal until it is met, and stay on course through long sessions. They can monitor pull requests, watch a Slack thread, or run scheduled tasks, and they automatically subscribe to PRs they create and drive them to completion. Any skill can be pinned as a Custom Mode from the slash menu with Option-Enter or Alt-Enter, acting as an always-on skill. Subagents can now run on their own virtual machines, each with an isolated copy of the project, so they can test the parent agent's changes in a fresh environment or swarm independent fixes. Steering waits for the next tool call instead of cutting the agent off mid-action. A new /goal command assigns a long-lived objective. The full changelog is dated August 19, 2026. Together these changes move Cursor from in-editor chat toward an orchestration layer for isolated, interruptible coding agents.
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