Background Agent
An agent that runs in its own remote environment rather than in your editor, so you can hand off a long task and keep working. It reports back with a branch or a pull request.
Where it comes up
Cursor for Support Teams
“directly with the codebase they can use cursor agent mode or background agents to talk directly uh to the codebase understand its context understand specific patterns if a customer is running to an error message you can easily ask cursor wh…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“of what we'll be covering today. So, as a quick agenda, we'll start with just some of the trends that we've seen across all of our customers who are utilizing Cursor and just industry trends. Then, we'll talk about like what's actually chan…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“is internal documentation and how we use things like background agents and slack integration uh to interact with uh the kind of uh uh foundational repository uh for for the cursor technology. Um then we're going to take a look at how we use…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“think you know obviously this might require like things like getting your dev environment set up but also using things like background agents you can uh kind of do this extremely quickly and like you know integrate with we have like integra…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“again, as you see here, the number of issues and the types of issues that it is resolving. I mentioned earlier that cloud agents is a very exciting new platform and surface for Cursor, and we're really, again, excited to see the internal an…”
Cursor CLI
“So, what one of the things that, um, you know, I love about this flexibility and and the CLI specifically is here in the space of 30 minutes, you know, we've got five or six agents here that are implementing new features in the Grafana repo…”