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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
Cursor shipped subagents that spawn their own subagents for multi-file features. Cloud-based agents on dedicated VMs test their own changes. 10-20 concurrent parallel agents. New sandboxing surfaces constraints and recommends permission escalation.
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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....
Bugbot now finds ~10% more bugs per review (0.62 vs 0.56) at ~22% lower cost per run. A new /review flow runs Bugbot and Security Review before push, dedups against the eventual PR, and supports incremental "only what's new" review. Cursor also added always-on Automations with...
Cursor launched the most significant release since 2.0: Cloud Agents with Computer Use. Autonomous coding agents now run in isolated VMs that build software, visually test it, record video demos, capture screenshots and logs, and ship merge-ready PRs. Over 30% of Cursor's own...
Three things happened almost simultaneously. Cursor 3.3 shipped "Build in Parallel," which identifies independent parts of your plan and runs them concurrently using async subagents. Windsurf integrated Devin Local with cloud handoff and multi-model support. And Claude Code's...
The September 2 entry keeps codebase, build outputs and secrets on internal infrastructure while the agent handles tool calls locally. My Machines connects one laptop or VM; team pools are named queues that grow as requests arrive, shrink when workers disconnect, hibernate idl...
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...
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