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Cursor SDK Adds Live Agent Steering and Background Subagent Results
Cursor SDK 1.0.31 returns background subagent results to the parent run and adds MCP tool annotations for custom tools. Live steering with run.steer() and replaceable system prompts are documented in the TypeScript SDK reference for local agents. As of October 7, 2026, the changelog is at 1.0.35 and 1.0.32 changed how steering behaves while an agent waits on background subagents.
Cursor Adds GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash to Its Model Picker
Cursor lists Z.ai's GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash in its model picker. GLM 5.3 is for higher-quality work at $1.4 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens; Flash is smaller and faster at $0.15 and $0.5. Both support Cursor's agent tools and draw from the third-party Other Models usage pool.
Cursor Rollouts Watches Deployments for Regressions Before Users See Them
Cursor introduced Rollouts, a Teams and Enterprise bot that follows a change from pull request to production. It writes an editable monitoring plan, checks deploys against logs, metrics, and traces, and reports verified health, regressions, or inconclusive results. It does not merge or roll back on its own.
Cursor Projects Give a Coordinator Agent a Long-Lived Body of Work
Cursor's Projects beta moves beyond one chat at a time: a coordinator agent keeps context over months, delegates implementation and testing to subagents, shares research and artifacts across cloud and local machines, and can watch PRs, Slack, or a schedule for recurring work.
Claude Marketplace Adds Cursor, CrowdStrike, Factory, Gamma, and Vercel
Anthropic is expanding Claude Marketplace with Cursor, CrowdStrike, Factory, Gamma, and Vercel. Enterprise customers can use an existing Anthropic spend commitment to buy Claude-powered solutions from marketplace partners, with Anthropic directing buyers to their account team rather than a self-serve checkout.
Cursor Cloud Agents Can Now Run on Self-Hosted Machines
Cursor Cloud Agents can now execute on machines that a team manages, including dynamically scaling pools inside its network. The execution environment moves to the team's infrastructure while Cursor continues to handle the agent loop, inference, and planning.
Cursor Cloud Agents Can Now Start Apps From Scratch
Cursor Cloud Agents can now begin a web app without an existing repository. The workflow can create an Origin repository, preview the result, and publish it to Vercel without requiring a local setup first.
OpenAI Plans to End Direct Cursor Model Access on November 12
OpenAI plans to end Cursor's direct access to OpenAI models. November 12, 2026 is proposed, and as of October 9 neither company has confirmed it. Only OpenAI models picked inside Cursor are affected, about 5% of its traffic. Local Chat and Agent can keep OpenAI through your own API key or the Codex extension; Tab, Auto and Cloud Agents cannot.
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 Welcomes Firetiger to Connect Coding Agents to Production
Cursor says the Firetiger team joined Cursor to bring production-operation agents closer to coding agents. Firetiger's agents monitor rollouts, catch regressions, investigate incidents, and pass findings back to coding agents. The Change Monitors the announcement called coming soon shipped on September 23, 2026 as Cursor Rollouts, on Teams and Enterprise plans.
Cursor Is Now Part of SpaceX
Cursor says its acquisition by SpaceX has officially closed. The Cursor team will join SpaceXAI, with the companies aiming to combine SpaceX's computing capacity and Cursor's product experience to build stronger, more economical models and make them useful in products such as Cursor and Grok.
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.
Codex Can Import Workflows From Other AI Agents
OpenAI now lets the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex CLI import supported setup and recent work from other agents. The desktop app can import from Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Cursor, while Codex CLI supports Claude Code and Cursor, with automatic updates and import history available in the desktop app.
Grok 4.6 Launched in Cursor With a One-Week 2x Usage Window, Now Ended
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, focused on long-running agents and visual work. Its first-week 2x included-usage offer in Cursor and Grok Build has ended, and Grok 4.7 succeeded it on September 21 at the same price. Grok 4.6 API pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
Cursor Router: Auto Balance, Auto Intelligence, and Cost Modes
Cursor Router is the routing system behind Auto, and Cursor documents it as available only on Teams and Enterprise plans. Open the model picker, select Auto, and pick Cost, Balance, or Intelligence under Optimize For. Every mode bills at the list price of whichever model the request is routed to.
Cursor SDK Bridge Opens Agent Control to Rust, Go, and More
Cursor has open-sourced an SDK Bridge that exposes a stable sdk.v1 protocol for driving Cursor agents from Rust, Go, Java, and other languages. Adapters run a small local bridge and communicate over Connect RPCs, while the bridge handles the connection to Cursor's API.
Cursor Agents Can Now Act Across Google Workspace
Cursor says new Google Workspace plugins give its coding agents direct access to Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. The plugins can search, read, draft, send, create, and manage Workspace data from inside Cursor, and install from the Cursor Marketplace or the Customize page.
Cursor Says Cloud Agents Use 20-30% Fewer Tokens
Cursor said on August 3, 2026 that its Cloud Agents are 20-30% more token efficient, and 80% more efficient on runs with computer use, crediting better MCP, skills, and computer-use handling. A September 23 agent-harness update later reported a further 7% cut in token costs without lower agent quality.
Cursor Launches Cursor Start: ₹649/Month Plan for Developers in India
Cursor Start is an India-only plan at ₹649 per month, tax inclusive, billed monthly in INR. As of September 26, 2026, Cursor's help docs say it covers Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5 in non-fast mode, with the Grok models at a fixed medium effort level, and excludes third-party models and on-demand spend, and pauses AI features when the monthly pool runs out.
Cursor Doubles Usage Limits on All Individual and Teams Plans
Cursor doubled the included usage pool for its own models, and staff confirmed in writing that it is permanent: 'The doubled pool stays.' As of October 9, 2026, the pool covers four models: Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5, and Composer 2.5. What expired on July 21, 2026 was a separate 50 percent launch discount on Grok 4.5.
Cursor Adds GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
Cursor added OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on July 9, 2026, and as of October 2026 they are still the newest OpenAI models Cursor lists. Cursor offers no GPT-6 model, and OpenAI has proposed ending Cursor's direct access to its models on November 12, 2026. Sol scores 67.2% on CursorBench 3.2.
Cursor Adds Side Chats: Durable Agent Threads You Can @-Mention Back Into the Main Conversation
Cursor introduced Side chats: separate, durable agent conversations that run alongside a main chat and can be @-mentioned to pull context back.
Cursor for iOS: Cloud Agents Go Mobile-First in Public Beta
Cursor's native iOS app lets developers launch and manage coding agents from a phone. Its October 6, 2026 Remote Control update documents how to pair with agents running on a computer, including the Enterprise admin toggle and the requirement to keep that computer on and online. The app also supports cloud agents, mobile review, and PR merges.
You Can Now Delegate Tasks to Cursor From Inside Notion
Notion used the Cursor SDK to embed coding agents directly in its workspace. You can now tag Cursor in a doc, mention it in a thread, or assign it a database issue, and Cursor plans, builds, tests, verifies its own work, and opens a PR. Notion says it built the integration in a few weeks on the Cursor SDK.
Cursor Origin Enters Early Beta: Code Hosting, Pull Requests, and GitHub Sync
Cursor's Origin, a Git forge built for agents, began rolling out in early beta on all paid plans on August 17, 2026 and is still in early beta. It hosts repositories, pull requests, code browsing and search, and GitHub mirroring, with Cursor agents in every repo. Free plans are excluded, and enterprise admins can opt out.
Cursor Bugbot gets faster and cheaper, adds /review command + incremental review
Cursor's June 10, 2026 update claims Bugbot PR reviews now finish ~3x faster (about 90s average vs ~5 minutes), cost ~22% less per run, and find ~10% more bugs per review. Cursor also added a /review command so you can run Bugbot and Security Review before pushing, plus an option to review only what changed since the last review.
Cursor Shared Canvases: Publish an Agent Canvas and Share It With Your Team via URL
Cursor added shared canvases -- you can now share a canvas from Cursor with your team by generating a link to a live snapshot that teammates open in the browser. Recipients view it read-only in the Cursor Dashboard, so you distribute a working dashboard or report instead of a full chat thread. Shared canvases are available on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.
Cursor 3.5 Brings Automations Into the Agents Window, Plus Multi-Repo and No-Repo Automations
Cursor 3.5, released May 20, 2026, put Automations in the Agents Window, let one automation attach multiple repos or none, and added five no-repo Marketplace templates. As of October 2026, automations run as cloud agents billed at cloud agent rates; the launch week's 50% discount on new automations has ended.
Cursor Composer 2.5: Better Long-Running Agent Work, Standard vs Fast Pricing, and Composer 2 Retired
Composer 2.5 is Cursor's own agentic coding model and, as of October 2026, the only Composer model Cursor lists: Composer 2 is retired, and SDK requests for it reroute to Composer 2.5. Cursor says 2.5 is better at long-running tasks and complex instructions. Standard costs $0.50/$2.50 per million tokens; Fast, the default, costs $3/$15.
Cursor Bugbot Effort Levels: Low, Default, High, and Smart (Usage-Based Billing Required)
As of October 2026, Cursor Bugbot offers four effort levels: Low, Default, High, and Smart. Cursor launched Default, High, and Custom on May 11, 2026. Effort control requires usage-based billing, which replaced Bugbot's $40 per seat plan at each customer's first renewal after June 8, 2026. Repos can now set effort in a YAML file.
Cursor Adds Enterprise Model Controls, Soft Spend Limits, and Richer Usage Analytics
Cursor's May 4, 2026 update gave Enterprise admins provider- and model-level allow and block lists, soft spend limits with alerts at 50%, 80%, and 100%, and usage analytics by user and product surface. The June 1, 2026 deadline to migrate old blocklists has passed; model access now lives under Team Settings, Models.
Cursor SDK: Programmatic Cursor Agents in TypeScript and Python, Local or Cloud
Cursor launched its SDK in public beta on April 29, 2026 as a TypeScript package. As of October 9, 2026 it ships for TypeScript (`@cursor/sdk`) and Python (`cursor-sdk`), released together at version 1.0.35, and the docs no longer call it beta. Agents run locally, on Cursor-hosted VMs, or on self-hosted workers.
Cursor 3.2 Adds /multitask Async Subagents, Worktrees Polish, and Multi-Root Workspaces
Cursor 3.2 shipped on April 24, 2026 with three changes: a `/multitask` command that fans a request out to async subagents instead of queueing, an improved worktrees experience for background branch work, and multi-root workspaces for cross-repo sessions. As of September 2026 the last two do not combine -- Cursor documents worktrees as disabled inside multi-root workspaces -- and `/multitask` no longer appears anywhere in Cursor's documentation.
Cursor Self-Documentation: Cursor Spawns a Subagent to Read Its Own Docs Before Answering
On April 17, 2026, Cursor's Eric Zakariasson announced that Cursor can more accurately answer questions about itself: it spawns a subagent to fetch the latest Cursor docs and updates before answering. The announcement was an X post; Cursor's subagent docs list only Explore, Bash, and Browser as built-in subagents and do not document it separately.
Codex CLI vs Claude Code vs Cursor: 2026 Architecture Deep-Dive (Sandboxing, Context, Plugins, Scheduling)
Codex CLI, Claude Code and Cursor now all confine local shell commands in an OS-enforced sandbox and all run hook scripts, so the real split is defaults and composition. Codex sandboxes by default, Claude Code's sandbox is opt-in, and Cursor sandboxes under Auto-review. Choose by default posture, Windows support and how unattended work runs.
Cursor Canvases: When to Ask the Agent for a UI Instead of Text
Cursor canvases are agent-generated interactive artifacts -- dashboards, reports, audits -- that render beside the chat. Cursor saves each one to your workspace canvas list, so you can reopen, edit, and rerun it later with fresh data. Publishing a canvas as a browser link for teammates needs a paid plan and a team.
Auto-Generate Cursor Rules and Skills From Your Chat History
Cursor stores agent sessions as JSONL transcripts on disk, which means an agent can read its own history and propose rules and skills based on patterns it spots. Eric Zakariasson's prompt formalizes this -- point Cursor at your transcripts and it emits ready-to-save .cursor/rules/*.mdc and .cursor/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md files for review.
Scheduled AI Coding Agents in 2026: Claude Code Routines vs Cursor Automations vs Codex vs Warp vs Gemini CLI
Claude Code Routines and Cursor Automations both ship schedules, API calls and native source-control events, and Cursor's trigger set is widest. ChatGPT scheduled tasks add Gmail, Slack and GitHub pull-request triggers but no API or webhook. Warp orchestrates other vendors' agents. Gemini CLI has no scheduler and lost its free individual tier on June 18, 2026.
Cursor vs Claude Code in 2026: Which AI Coding Tool Is Better?
Neither tool is terminal-only or editor-only any more: Cursor ships a CLI and Claude Code ships a desktop app, IDE extensions and a browser surface. Choose Cursor for inline tab autocomplete and cross-lab model choice, though OpenAI plans to end Cursor's direct model access on a proposed November 12; choose Claude Code for one agent across surfaces.