VM
A whole computer simulated in software, running its own operating system on someone else's hardware. Cloud agents get one each, which is why they can install things and run a server without touching your machine.
Where it comes up
Cursor 201
“spin up this cloud agent. Essentially, what that does, it spins up a VM. So, you can see over here it even has its own little desktop terminal. Um it checks out a copy of that code base. Um it's going to implement the plan that we worked on…”
Cursor Automations
“lookbook fruit. It stands for a low-hanging fruit. Let me open this up. Go to run history. You'll be able to see immediately there's actually an automation that's running right away. Let's go ahead and open this up and see what's going on h…”
Cursor 201
“have made a plan, um like an implementation plan, um and then uh you want an agent to kind of straightforwardly implement that plan, you can kick off a cloud agent, shut your laptop, go do something else, um and that cloud agent will contin…”
Cursor x Datadog
“Um if you see uh something that looks like this, chances are you have cloud agents turned on already. If you don't, you'll probably see a button that says connect GitHub, and that means you need to set set a repository. Cloud agents are age…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“And so, this lets you scale capacity, right? And so, we can see a quick demo here. Um but these cloud agents are running in their own isolated sandbox VM. And they're given a little more autonomy, right? Because they're meant to do their ow…”
Cloud Agents
“think we get that question a lot is like why use cloud agents versus local agents? The main reason is um kind of uh I want to say async or multitasking or kind of orchestrating agents here. Basically how I use cloud agents is I have a list…”
Cursor CLI
“things about cloud agents is that they'll return they'll build these artifacts for you. So, um it'll go ahead it's got its own virtual machine and uh we can kind of see uh the work that the agent has gone and and done. Um and there's a agai…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“session? So just because you see the agent chat doesn't necessarily mean that the environment that cloud agent was working out of is still built. And so if you go back to an old session and re-prompt it it may need to rebuild that environme…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“environment within for example a you know bastion host system that then uh makes changes to uh your cobalt mainframe uh in an actual EC2 container in a docker container uh in a remote VM whatever makes the most sense you can run cursor wher…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“you can say um a channel name of XYZ and then you can go ahead and kick that off in This spins up a brand new uh VM that has all your um all your information of what your GitHub repository look like. Uh it has all the system prompt that you…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“integration was able to determine no there's no dark mode in the app. Um I could invoke cursor again and just say cursor implement a dark mode in the app. Um and what this is going to do is spin up a cloud agent, a remote agent that's going…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“paradigm shift where uh people are kicking things off async and uh these agents are running in the cloud on their own VMs and then coming back with artifacts for the human to review. And so, yeah, I think each sort of era here is like marke…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“Absolutely. Brilliant question. You almost it's like you read my mind for for the next session. So we're not covering that today but the short answer is cloud agents. So actually in in the agent view you can see that I can run in cloud here…”