Cursor: cloud agents with subscriptions, custom modes, isolated subagent VMs, and /goal
Cursor cloud agents can now subscribe to event sources (PRs, Slack threads, scheduled triggers) and drive work to completion autonomously. Custom modes lock a skill as the agent's persistent context. Subagents run on isolated virtual machines with clean project copies. The /goal command gives agents long-lived objectives. Steering follow-ups no longer interrupt the current tool call.
PUBLISHED2026-08-19
OBSERVED2026-08-21
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- Subscriptions: cloud agents can subscribe to PRs, Slack threads, or scheduled schedules; automatically subscribe to PRs they create and drive to completion (fix CI, address bot comments). Slack:
@cursor check back in an hour and keep going until that feedback is in. - Custom modes: any skill can be pinned as a persistent chat mode via
/+ skill name +⌥⏎/Alt+Enteror "Use as Mode". - Subagents on their own VMs: each subagent gets an isolated project copy with clean context in its own cloud environment.
- /goal: set a long-lived objective that the agent works towards until fully complete. Pair with a custom mode or
/loop. - Steering improvements: follow-up messages queue for the next tool call boundary instead of interrupting mid-action.
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