Cursor builds always-on agents to tackle developer task tedium

Cursor has launched Cursor Automations, a feature that enables always-on AI agents to handle repetitive developer tasks automatically. These agents can be triggered by events such as Slack messages, GitHub pull requests, Linear issues, or PagerDuty incidents, and also run on schedules. Once triggered, agents spin up in cloud sandboxes, use Model Context Protocol connections, and can learn from past runs. Use cases include incident triage, dead code cleanup, security reviews on every push to main, daily test coverage checks, and weekly Slack digests summarizing repository changes. Cursor Bugbot, originally launched with Cursor 1.0, serves as the foundational automation running on every pull request. Jensen Huang of Nvidia is quoted endorsing Cursor as his favorite enterprise AI service, with all 40,000 Nvidia engineers now using it.