Cursor launches tool to automate agentic coding workflows
As AI coding agents multiply, one of the sector’s fastest-growing companies is rethinking who, or what, should be in charge of keeping them on track.
Cursor has launched a new tool called Automations, designed to help software engineers manage the growing complexity of overseeing multiple AI coding agents at once.
Rather than requiring a human to initiate each task, the system allows agents to launch automatically in response to events such as a new code addition, a Slack message, or a scheduled timer.
The shift is significant because it breaks the ‘prompt-and-monitor’ model that currently defines most AI-assisted engineering.
As Cursor’s engineering lead for asynchronous agents, Jonas Nelle put it, humans are no longer always the ones initiating; they are called in at the right moments, rather than tracking dozens of processes simultaneously.
Early applications include automated bug reviews, security audits, PagerDuty incident response, and weekly codebase summaries delivered to Slack.
The launch comes as competition in the agentic coding space intensifies, with both OpenAI and Anthropic releasing major updates to their tools in recent weeks. Cursor’s annual recurring revenue has nonetheless doubled over the past three months to more than $2 billion.
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