Making "Don't Call a Human Every Loop" the Default — Cursor's Cloud Agents Go All-In on "Stay Resident and Run Autonomously" with /goal and Dedicated Machines
Cursor overhauls its cloud agents. It adds always-on residency triggered by events, /goal for long-horizon objectives, subagents that run on dedicated machines, and PR/Slack subscriptions — pushing toward autonomy that "doesn't call a human on every loop." We lay out both the convenience and the con