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Cursor upgrades cloud agents: event-triggered work, persistent goals, long sessions (@cursor_ai)
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Cursor's cloud agents now pick up work from events, monitoring PRs, watching a Slack thread, or running on a schedule, and hold a goal until it's met via /goal. The changelog also adds subagents on isolated VMs.
In plain words
- Cursor's cloud-based artificial intelligence systems can now start work when events happen.
- They can monitor proposed code changes, watch a Slack conversation, or run tasks on a schedule.
- A goal command lets them keep pursuing an objective through long sessions until they complete it.
- Developers can assign longer work that reacts to project events without giving a fresh instruction each time.
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Aug 20, 2026 · from X
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