Fetching from the wire…
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
Top 5 · 2026-02-25 · source-backed
Two major releases in one week. v2.4 introduces async recursive subagents (background execution, tree coordination) and CLI Plan Mode (/plan). v2.5 adds a full plugin marketplace at cursor.com/marketplace with Amplitude, AWS, Figma, Linear, Stripe, Vercel, and others as launch partners. Plugins bundle MCP servers, skills, subagents, and hooks into single installs. New sandbox network access controls let you define allowed domains during execution. Action: Browse cursor.com/marketplace. Configure sandbox access controls. (Cursor Changelog)
Each link below shares sources, entities, or timing with this story.
Cursor's marketplace bundles five plugin primitives — MCP servers, skills, subagents, hooks, and rules — into single-install packages. Launch partners: Figma, Linear, Stripe, AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Amplitude, Databricks, Snowflake, Hex. Private team marketplaces for enterpri...
Figma, Linear, Stripe, and AWS as day-one partners. Background Agents run on Cursor's servers and are accessible via Slack, Linear, and GitHub without local connection. Simultaneously, frontier models move to token-based billing in Max Mode today — a single complex prompt can...
Cursor's Plugin Marketplace (Feb 17-18) packages skills, subagents, MCP servers, hooks, and rules into single-install plugins with fine-grained network controls. Cursor Cloud Agents (Feb 24) run on isolated VMs that build, test, record video demos, and produce merge-ready PRs....
The most architecturally significant IDE release this cycle. MCP servers can now return interactive HTML interfaces — analytics dashboards (Amplitude), design manipulation (Figma), whiteboard/diagramming (tldraw) — rendered directly inside agent chat. Also ships Team Plugin Ma...
Anthropic's "The Briefing" enterprise event today unveiled Agent Skills as an open standard for pluggable agent capabilities, with launch partners including Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub, Atlassian, Figma, Canva, Stripe, Notion, and Zapier. OpenAI was discovered to have quietly ad...
Cursor's 2026-08-19 changelog adds Subscriptions to cloud agents, and it changes what an agent *is* in a way that a normal feature bullet undersells. An agent can now subscribe to an event stream and act on it without you prompting anything. Agents automatically subscribe to P...
MindPattern daily
One email a day at 7 AM. Sources and a take on every story. Unsubscribe anytime.