Cursor Cloud Agents · Anysphere
Cursor's fire-and-forget mode (formerly Background Agents): agents run in isolated cloud Ubuntu VMs — since Feb 2026 with a full desktop and browser for 'computer use' UI verification — clone the repo onto their own branch, work multi-repo in parallel, report back to the IDE/web/Slack/Teams/iOS app, and open PRs, with Dockerfile-configurable environments, scoped secrets, and a headless Background Agent API.
Identity
| Homepage | https://cursor.com/cloud |
|---|---|
| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | ide · web-app · cloud-service · chat-integration |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | partial |
|---|---|
| Native models | Composer · Claude Opus/Sonnet · GPT-5 · Gemini |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | subscription |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
|---|---|
| Agent Skills support | ? unknown |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | vm |
|---|---|
| Autonomy spectrum | background-cloud → semi-autonomous → supervised |
| Subagents | ? unknown |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | codebase-indexing · compaction |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
|---|---|
| GitHub integration | ✓ yes |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise