Cursor Automations: Trigger AI Agents Without Prompting

Cursor flipped the default. Its new Automations feature spins up AI coding agents automatically—triggered by a GitHub PR, a Slack message, a PagerDuty alert, or a cron schedule—without a developer ever opening the IDE. This is not background autocomplete. It is a full agent run in an isolated cloud sandbox, with MCP tools, that delivers a PR diff or Slack summary when it finishes. What Automations Actually Does When a trigger fires, Cursor provisions a cloud sandbox, clones your repository, and executes agent instructions using whatever MCP tools you have configured—Datadog, Linear, GitHub, Slack, or custom integrations. The agent self-verifies […]

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