Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements

Cursor released improvements to cloud agents, including subscriptions to events (PRs, Slack, scheduled tasks), custom modes, subagents on their own VMs, a /goal command for long-lived objectives, and steering improvements allowing follow-ups without interruption.

From the source
With this release, cloud agents can automatically pick up work in response to events, hold a goal until it's met, and stay on course through long-running sessions.
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Announced: 19 Aug 2026 00:00 UTC
Detected: 21 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC (+2d after)

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