Cursor cloud agents now open PRs and fix CI until they go green
The Aug 19 harness update also adds a /goal command for long-lived objectives, per-subagent VM isolation for parallel fixes, and skills you can pin as modes.
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Agents that own their pull requests
Cloud agents now auto-subscribe to the PRs they open and drive them to completion — fixing failing CI and answering bot comments across rounds, with no human re-prompt each cycle. It turns the review-fix loop you'd normally babysit into background work.
/goal pins one objective across many steps
A new `/goal` command — e.g. `/goal fix all flaky tests and make CI green` — hands an agent a long-lived target it keeps working toward, instead of a single-shot prompt that stops at the first plausible pause.
Subagents get isolated VMs
Subagents now run on separate virtual machines, each with its own copy of your project, so several can test and patch in parallel without clobbering each other's working tree.
Pin a skill as an always-on mode
Custom Modes let you pin any skill as a persistent mode with Alt+Enter (⌥⏎), and follow-up messages now queue until the next tool call instead of interrupting the agent mid-action — press Enter twice to steer.
Elsewhere: Cursor Origin opens code hosting in beta
Cursor's own Git hosting, Origin, is now in early beta on all paid plans — a two-way GitHub mirror with a Codebase tab for PRs and review. GitHub stays the source of truth; agent-native features come later.