06-18-26
CursorSummary
This release focuses heavily on enhancing Cursor Automations with new ways to trigger them, including Slack emoji reactions and five new GitHub events. A major addition is the computer use tool, allowing cloud agents to generate demos or artifacts locally. Quality-of-life improvements include the ability to save incomplete automations and default PR opening behavior.
New Features
- Introduced the /automate skill to create automations directly in local agent sessions using plain language descriptions.
- Enabled emoji triggers for Slack automations, allowing users to kick off an automation by reacting to a Slack message with a specific emoji.
- Added support for five new GitHub triggers for automations: Issue comment, PR review comment, PR review submitted, Review thread updated, and Workflow run completed.
- Enabled Cloud agents kicked off by automations to use their own computers to produce demos or artifacts of their work via the computer use tool.
Improvements
- Automations can now be saved in an incomplete state, preventing loss of progress when navigating away to set up MCP authentication.
- Automations now open PRs by default, removing the need to explicitly specify that tool in the UI.
- Enabled users to delete memory files directly in the UI, or prompt an automation to delete outdated memories upon execution.