Cursor Cloud Agents Get Computer Use

• Cursor's changelog of 24 February 2026 says cloud agents can now use the software they create to test changes and demo their work; each agent runs in its own isolated VM with a full development environment after onboarding onto a codebase^[1]
• Agents return merge-ready pull requests with artifacts - videos, screenshots and logs - so a reviewer can see the change working, and the agents are reachable from web, desktop, mobile, Slack and GitHub^[1][3]
• Cursor says more than 30% of the PRs it merges internally are now created by agents working autonomously in cloud sandboxes^[3]
• The writeup says computer use takes screen pixels as input and outputs coordinates, and that a first demo agent worked about half an hour starting servers and testing end to end, with /repro asking the agent to record a bug on video.^[2]

Notable features

• Users can take over the agent's remote desktop to use the modified software and make edits without checking out the branch locally^[3]
• Isolated VMs let many agents run in parallel without fighting for a laptop's CPU, memory or ports, the constraint Cursor says limits local agents^[3]
• Cursor's examples: an agent added GitHub source links to plugin pages, verified them by clicking through the Prisma plugin, then rebased and squashed; another was started from Slack to reproduce a clipboard exfiltration bug on video; a third spent 45 minutes testing the docs site^[3]
• Getting started is self-serve: cursor.com/onboard has the agent configure itself on your repo and record a demo^[1]

Context

• Cursor's maker Anysphere is based in San Francisco; per The Decoder (16 June 2026), SpaceX later agreed to acquire it for $60 billion in stock