# Cursor — Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements

- Company: Cursor (cursor.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Cursor
- Source: https://cursor.com/changelog/08-19-26
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4227-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cursor.com/changelog/08-19-26:

> 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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