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Builds prepare your Cloud Agent environment in the background. Each agent starts from a pre built machine with your repositories, tools, and dependencies ready.

Use these recommendations to get more reliable Cloud Agent runs.

Cursor Automations run cloud agents in the background, either on a schedule or in response to events from GitHub, GitLab, Slack, webhooks, Linear, and more.

When you create an agent with a webhook URL, Cursor will send HTTP POST requests to notify you about status changes. Currently, only statusChange events are supported, specifically when an agent encou

The Cloud Agents API v1 is in public beta. APIs may change before general availability.

Cloud agents use the same agent fundamentals but run in isolated VMs in the cloud with full development environments instead of on your local machine. The development environment is similar to the set

The CLI supports the same modes as the editor. Switch modes using slash commands or the mode flag.

Shell Mode runs shell commands directly from the CLI without leaving your conversation. Use it for quick, non interactive commands with safety checks and output displayed in the conversation.

Configure your terminal for the best Cursor CLI experience. This guide covers keybindings for multi line input, Vim mode, and theme synchronization.