agent
A model given tools and a goal, running in a loop: decide, act, look at the result, decide again. The difference from chat is that it does things rather than describing them.
Where it comes up
How Cursor uses Cursor
“with the Cursor agents. If you haven't used Cursor previously, it's an agentic software engineering platform covering multiple different mediums available at cursor.com/download. We'd highly recommend if you haven't used it just go ahead an…”
Cursor 201
“Cursor. Um, so some of the topics that we're going to cover are skills and sub-agents, cloud agents and automations, computer use, and potentially bug bot if we have some time for it at the end. Um, encourage you to ask questions as I go. I…”
Cursor 201
“So, the agenda. We'll do a a a really super fast 101 recap. We'll cover some of the kind of key concepts that that hopefully you picked up if you did the 101 in the past. We'll get into some stuff of the more advanced stuff here. So, skills…”
Cursor CLI
“different themes emerge. Um, all right. So, starting from, you know, Cursor CLI kind of 101, uh, level. Um, I've got a like I said, a few different shells here on the right. Couple of them have actually already instantiated, uh, a Cursor ag…”
Cursor Agent SDK
“and monitor as we go. Um awesome. So, I'm going to pull up my screen and then we are going to get going. Okay. Jake, I'm going to confirm with you that you can see my screen where we've got the slides for the Cursor Agent SDK. We are good t…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“tools, and AI agents into this single system that plans, builds, and ships code faster for your team. And really, our mission here is to build the engineer of the future. And that's where human developers and AI agents can work side by side…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“have come out and my hope is that uh coming out of this session uh you'll be inspired to check one or two out. Uh I think they're all really powerful and as I was saying here as we were getting started the space moves so fast. Um, I know we…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“of focus on an individual contributors local workflow and how they can get the most out of Cursor desktop. But beyond just the desktop and web apps that we'll see today, there is so much beyond that, right? You got the automations that are…”
Cloud Agents
“Hey everyone. My name is Emily and I'm an engineer on the growth team here at Cursor. And today we will be presenting about cloud agents, which is agents that run in the cloud and they keep going when laptops are actually closed. And they l…”
Cursor x Slack
“Let's see what's wrong with the payments code, right?" Like no no reference to like what the repo is or that code lives cuz I mean Steven for this purpose doesn't know that. And then says like, "Hey, can we create a fix and open a PR?" So w…”
Cursor x Datadog
“Um, and I think, you know, right now, this is a more pressing problem than ever. Um, AI coding tools mean it actually that the tools mean that teams are shipping more code and shipping it faster. And that's the whole point. It's absolutely…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“Cool. Let's dive in here. Okay, I should share my screen. I'll assume you can see my screen. Let me know if you can't. Um yes, so today uh we're going to be diving into uh you know, how you can get an effective use of cursor for your mobile…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“the future and where coding agents are headed in the future, and then we'll actually just make a plan to migrate a codebase live and kind of see what that looks like, uh, and play around with it and talk through some of the trade-offs. So,…”
Cursor 101
“So, um it's built for the entire software development life cycle. It will help you read unfamiliar code. It will make changes across files, help you with debugging even. Uh it's going to review. It has a capability to review code for you. U…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“Cool. And for today's topic, we're going to be talking about engineering in the agentic era. And so, you know, there's been kind of a lot of changes over the past year in terms of uh how everything works in terms of building product and sof…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“And also uh one of our cloud agent offerings. If you haven't tried or seen the SDK yet, this is new from us. We've got quite uh a few new releases and things that are coming from this. >> [clears throat] >> And you always have access to the…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“kind of level setting as well on what our product surface is today. We really started out with a cursor desktop application, essentially a fork of VS Code. Uh we are very far away from VS Code today. really trying to move into less of an ed…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“Awesome. So, this is our Cursor for knowledge work workshop, where we'll be doing a high-level introduction to Cursor, going through a demo of some top use cases we recommend for you folks to try out, and then George will be talking about h…”
Cursor Automations
“Awesome. Well, thanks everyone for joining. Today we'll be talking about cursor automations, which is a way to build always-on agents that you can um build into your productive workflows. And today you're joined by me, um John and Joseph. I…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“the biggest use cases I have is to just ramp into something and learn quickly about it. Um this is something that we always have to do in security, right? We we have like very horizontal coverage area. We're doing security for parts of the…”
PRD to PR
“project. Uh then we're going to hop into specifically plan mode to help our implementation. Uh we'll touch on skills and commands. Uh and then we're going to move into cloud agents and then how all of this kind of ties together into this ki…”
Cursor for Data Science
“very rapidly pivot into the demo and spend the lion share of uh today's time there. But for those who are brand new to cursor just want to talk about like what makes cursor fundamentally different and why it represents just like a new appro…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“can prompt the your large language models, the better you can uh kind of partner with and collaborate with uh the agent uh and know exactly kind of uh the the the information that's required to uh have the agent generate the best possible c…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“management system or knowledge management system and from there use that to query information directly uh in that system. So one way of thinking about this is I'm going to go to the agent panel here and start by asking uh for the agent to b…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“also looking into in the future is hosting cloud agents. So, have you ever kicked off a long running agent task that runs for like 30 minutes and you just got stuck? You can't close your laptop or anything? That's something that will be sol…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“rely on your support that all offhand. You can make it available to the agent and make it really easy for your support to debug for them overall. Um, and yeah, [clears throat] cursor is fundamentally changing the way our team operates in te…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“>> Sweet. And hi everybody. I'm Rohan. I'm one of the product managers here at Cursor. Um, and yeah, I work on some of our more like async agent products like Bugbot and Cloud Agents um, and lots of other random stuff. So yeah, excited to s…”
Cursor 101
“We're calling it Cursor 3. Sometimes we're calling it glass or the agent's window. This is uh slightly different than the traditional IDE that most of us are used to looking at when it comes to writing code um especially in an agentic setti…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“the Cursor agent every day. And so this is kind of the scale that we're talking about when we discuss security for agent coding. We're not, you know, topic talking about something that is going to happen in a few months. This is something t…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“These are ways in which you can actually augment and customize Cursor's agent loop to ensure that uh the way that the agent works is going to conform to different security uh regulations, things like scanning for secrets before a prompt is…”
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“pretty normal. It looks pretty similar to the cursor that I'm used to. And that's because we have our existing layout, our classic layout or the editor IDE layout. Nothing has changed here. So, if you're the type of person who loves this la…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“Cool. Awesome. So, just kicking us off here just to quickly run through a a bit of an agenda for today. As you may have seen on the on the workshop brief as well. First thing we'll cover off is just sort of like general enterprise security…”
Cursor for Designers
“So nice to meet everyone. Cool. I will try and get to as many questions as I can. It's a pretty packed agenda in terms of what I want to cover today. So again, if you have questions, please put them in the chat and I will try and get to the…”
Training Composer 2
“helpful interactive process for you when writing code. We saw that users were moving from a tab, kind of manual coding process, to one that more relied on agents. And this process really picked up over the last few months. When we originall…”
Developer Productivity Trends
“So um yes, so the first is uh what I just mentioned, teams merged 39% more pull requests after agent became the default mode. Uh and this is really really valuable again just to kind of get um that this is actually merging it to production…”
Cursor for Finance Teams
“Um A quick grounding on of what Cursor is. So, it's it's I think of it as an intelligent workspace. Maybe that's not how like a an engineer might explain it, but that's kind of like how I think about it. A part editor, part AI agent that ca…”