Cursor Cloud Agents now spin up from a prompt, no repo required

It scaffolds an Origin repo, serves a live browser preview, and can publish to Vercel — plus Codex extension hooks and a free finance MoE.

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  • Prompt in, repo scaffolded for you

    Pick "Start from scratch" in the Cloud Agents repo picker, type a prompt, and Cursor spins up a working project with no GitHub repo attached — it creates an Origin repo in the background that you can save under a real name once the output holds up.

  • A live preview, then a real URL

    Port-forwarding streams the agent's running environment straight into your browser, design-mode tools included, and a connected Vercel account turns the finished build into a live URL — so one session can go from prompt to shippable site.

  • Codex extensions can now rewrite tool output

    OpenAI's Codex 0.151.0 (Aug 29) lets extensions inspect or replace MCP tool results before the model ever sees them — a clean hook for trimming noise, redacting secrets, or reshaping payloads. It also adds a configurable grace period for optional MCP servers and permission profiles that persist across terminal-UI sessions.

  • A free finance-tuned MoE on Vercel's gateway

    InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash Fin — a 124B-param MoE with ~5.1B active and a 256K context, tuned for financial research and long-horizon agentic planning while keeping coding and math — is free right now on Vercel AI Gateway via inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin-free. The -free ID stops serving rather than billing you when the window closes.

  • Transformers 5.16.1 runs the newest drops

    Hugging Face Transformers 5.16.1 adds native GLM-5.3-Flash support — the first multimodal GLM-5 — on top of 5.16.0's Qwen4-Exp, Granite Speech 5.0, and Step-3.7-Flash, so you can pull this week's open models locally without hand-patching the library.