Agentic Coding Articles
5 articles across AI Catchup's news, guides, tutorials, and comparisons.
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Cursor Cloud Agents Add Event Triggers, Long-Lived Goals, and Isolated Subagents
Cursor says Cloud Agents can now pick up work from events, keep working toward a long-lived goal, monitor pull requests, watch Slack threads, run scheduled tasks, and launch subagents in isolated virtual machines. The same update adds skill-based Custom Modes and less disruptive steering while an agent is working.
Cursor Cloud Agents Start Up to 3x Faster With Builds
Cursor says Cloud Agents can start up to 3x faster with Builds, ready-to-use copies of development environments prepared in the background. Builds keep agents on the latest successful environment, expose logs and version history in the dashboard, and are now the default path for every Cloud Agent environment.
Grok 4.6 Lands in Cursor With a One-Week 2x Usage Window
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, focused on long-running agents and visual work. It is live in Cursor and Grok Build with 2x included usage for the first week, and in the API plus OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare. Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
Claude Code Will Make Auto Mode the Default on August 14
Anthropic says Claude Code will make auto mode the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14, 2026. The mode routes tool calls through a safety classifier, keeps manual approval available, and no longer charges those plans for classifier overhead.
Cursor Launches Composer 2.5: Better Long-Running Agent Work, New Pricing Tiers, and 2x Included Usage This Week
Cursor has released Composer 2.5, calling it its most powerful Composer model yet. Cursor says it's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. Cursor's launch post also says included usage is doubled for the first week. Cursor's blog post adds token pricing for Standard vs Fast modes.