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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 consume 10–50x more credits than before. Route 80% of work to cost-efficient models. NXCode
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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...
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...
Four platforms launched agent stores in one week. Notion Custom Agents work autonomously 24/7 via MCP connecting Slack, Mail, Calendar, Figma, Linear. Superhuman Agent Store opened with partner SDK. Combined with Cursor's marketplace and Anthropic's Cowork plugins, MCP-based d...
Claude Code v2.1.71 adds /loop for cron-scheduled background prompts (PR babysitting, Slack summaries, deploy monitoring). Cursor shipped Automations with event-driven triggers from GitHub, PagerDuty, and webhooks. OpenAI open-sourced Symphony, an Elixir/BEAM framework that po...
Anysphere shipped Cursor 3 (codenamed "Glass") on April 2, and it's not really an IDE anymore. It's an agent workspace. The redesign is fundamental. Developers enter natural language task descriptions, select an LLM, and Cursor generates code plus a demo video. Local and cloud...
Cursor 3 launched on April 2. Not an update. A full rebuild. The editor is now secondary to what they're calling an agent orchestration workspace. You can run unlimited parallel agents, locally or in the cloud, launch them from your phone or Slack or Linear, and manage them in...
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