Cursor upgraded its cloud agents to persist long-lived objectives via `/goal` commands, auto-subscribe to PR discussions and CI events, and spawn subagents inside isolated VM sandboxes. Each subagent runs on a fresh repository clone for parallel testing without dirtying the working branch.

Key Takeaways

  • βœ“Introduces `/goal` state machines allowing cloud agents to drive multi-hour refactors to completion.
  • βœ“Watches GitHub PR comments and CI webhooks to automatically apply requested review changes.
  • βœ“Subagents execute inside isolated VM sandboxes for parallel, safe hypothesis testing.
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