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Public story · 2026-03-03 · source-backed
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. 30% of Cursor's own merged PRs are created by these agents. Bugbot Autofix resolution rate climbed from 52% to 76%, with over 35% of autofix changes merged. Cursor Changelog
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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...
The Cursor Cloud Agents launch is a paradigm shift. Agents now run in isolated VMs with full computer use capabilities -- they can build software, visually test it by opening the app, take screenshots to verify UI, record video demos, and ship merge-ready PRs. This isn't just...
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...
Cursor's changelog added beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentResponse, afterAgentThought, subagentStart, and stop to .cursor/hooks.json on July 10, pitched for self-correcting cloud agent loops. Community reports since release say the hooks don't reliably fire in cloud agent VMs, an...
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...
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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