Cursor: Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements
What changed:
- Cloud agents can now subscribe to PRs, Slack threads, and scheduled tasks, waking automatically when something happens
- Subagents can run on their own virtual machines, each with an isolated copy of the project and clean context
- Use /goal to give an agent a long-lived objective to work toward until fully complete
- Steer the agent mid-run without interruption — follow-ups wait for the next tool call instead of cutting it off
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Steering improvements:
- Send a message to steer the agent while it's working without interruption — follow-ups wait for the next tool call instead of cutting the agent off mid-action.
- Type a follow-up and hit Send now, or press ⏎ twice.
Cursor: Origin Code Hosting
What changed:
- Origin is Cursor's new code hosting platform, rolling out in early beta on all paid plans: repos, pull requests, and code browsing
- GitHub repos sync to Origin in real time; PR comments and reactions sync both ways between Cursor and GitHub within seconds
- Agents can answer questions, make changes, update PRs, or push a branch from any Origin repo
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App extensions:
- Connect Vercel from a repo's Apps tab and every PR gets a preview deployment. Merge and it ships to production.
- Depot and Buildkite both run existing GitHub Actions workflows. Buildkite also runs its native pipelines.
Cursor: Cloud Agents Start 3x Faster with Builds
What changed:
- Introduces builds: ready-to-use copies of your development environment prepared in the background, included with Cloud Agents at no additional cost.
- Agents boot into a prepared environment instead of setting up from scratch each session — 10x faster boot internally, 3x faster time to first token.
- If a build breaks, agents keep using the last successful build; the broken build never becomes active.
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Getting started:
- New environments use builds automatically. For existing environments, open the Builds tab in the Cloud Agents dashboard and click Enable Builds, or click Run setup agent first to review proposed config changes.
- You can trigger a build manually, debug a failing build with an agent, and control how stale builds refresh with a configurable threshold.
Cursor: Cursor for Google Workspace
What changed:
- Cursor can now read, write, and act across Google Workspace via MCP
- Covers Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Chat
- Install from the Cursor Marketplace or the Customize page in Cursor
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