08-19-26
CursorSummary
This release enhances cloud agents with new capabilities like Subscriptions to react to events and Custom Modes for focused work. Agents can now operate more autonomously, with subagents running in isolated environments and the new /goal command for long-term objectives. Steering agents has also been improved to allow non-interruptive follow-ups.
New Features
- Introduced Subscriptions for cloud agents, allowing them to automatically respond to events like PRs, Slack threads, or scheduled tasks.
- Enabled Custom Modes, allowing users to pin any skill to stay focused on a specific task.
- Introduced the ability for subagents to run on their own virtual machines, providing isolated environments for testing and fixes.
- Added the /goal command to assign long-lived objectives to agents that they will work towards until completion.
- Enabled users to steer agents while they are working by sending follow-up messages that wait for the next tool call.
Improvements
- Cloud agents can now automatically pick up work in response to events, hold a goal until it's met, and stay on course through long-running sessions.
- Agents now automatically subscribe to PRs they create and drive them to completion, fixing CI and addressing bot comments.
- Follow-up messages for steering agents now wait for the next tool call instead of interrupting the agent mid-action.