Cursor Automations
Scheduled and event-triggered Cursor agents: a rule fires on a cron schedule or a repository event, an agent does the work unattended, and the result comes back for review instead of waiting on someone to start it.
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What it does
- Agentic coding
- Workflow automation
Features 4
- Scheduled and event triggersRuns agents on a schedule or in response to repository and chat events
- Daily repo digestPosts a daily summary of notable repository changes and new risks
- Bugs in Slack to PRsMonitors Slack for bug reports, investigates and returns PRs for simple fixes
- Automatic test coverageReviews every new commit and adds tests for high-risk logic
Sources
- Pricing
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Tier names and monthly rates read from cursor.com/en-US/pricing on 2026-09-19.
- Description
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Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026
Read 2026-09-19: "Cursor Automations -- Save time by eliminating repetitive tasks", "Set up agents that run automatically based on schedules or event-based triggers" and "Create your self-driving codebase".
- What it does
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Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026
Agents that write code unattended are agentic-coding; the schedule and event triggers that start them are workflow-automation.
- Sold within
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Reached through a Cursor subscription rather than bought alone: the pricing page lists one set of plans for the whole product -- "Hobby / Free", "Pro / $20 / mo.", "Pro+ / $60 / mo." -- and names no line item for this surface.
- Name
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Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026
The vendor's Product menu lists "Automations" and links to /automate; the page's own heading is "Cursor Automations".
- URL
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Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026
The surface's own page on cursor.com, linked from the vendor's Product menu.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 19 Sep 2026
Distributed as part of Cursor: a download for the desktop and CLI surfaces, Cursor's own infrastructure for the cloud ones.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Page, read in a browser 2026-10-14: "Build your first automation" links to cursor.com/automations, the web console where schedules and event triggers are set.
Also from Cursor
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Cursor Developer tool
Code editor built on VS Code that edits, refactors and runs a codebase from natural-language instructions.
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Bugbot Developer tool
AI code-review tool that runs automatically in the background on new pull requests, flags likely logic bugs with a low false-positive rate, and proposes fixes directly in the Cursor editor.
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Cloud Agents AI agent
Cloud-hosted coding agents (formerly Background Agents) that run in isolated virtual machines with full development environments, work across multiple repositories in parallel, and produce merge-ready pull requests; reachable from Cursor Web, Desktop, iOS, Slack, GitHub/Bitbucket, Linear or the API.
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Cursor CLI Developer tool
Cursor's agent in a terminal: the same frontier models and agent loop driven by slash commands, @-file references and shell escapes, without the editor, so it can be scripted or run over SSH.
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Cursor Mobile Application
Native iOS app for starting, watching and steering Cursor's agents away from a desk: work queued from a phone runs on Cursor's own machines and lands back in the same project.
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