Introducing Automations: always-on coding agents

By Cursor

Categories: AI, Tools

Summary

Cursor's Automations empower software teams to boost productivity by 50%+ with autonomous 'agents' that automatically triage incidents, clean up code, and implement user-requested features - without manual intervention.

Key Takeaways

1. Incident triage agents can diagnose and resolve issues within minutes, eliminating 3 AM wakeups for on-call engineers.
2. Nightly 'cleanup' agents automatically identify and remove dead code or bad patterns from recent PRs, saving hours of manual review.
3. Feature request agents instantly create pull requests to implement user-suggested improvements, accelerating time-to-value.
4. Agents can be prompted to handle complex Git and GitHub tasks like threaded comments and resolving past feedback, eliminating tedious manual work.
5. Automating repetitive engineering tasks boosts developer productivity by over 50%, freeing up time for innovation.
6. Cursor's open-ended agent model allows for highly customized workflows, with new use cases continuously emerging from its active user community.

Topics

• ReAct Agents
• Developer Productivity
• Autonomous Workflows
• Incident Response
• Open-Ended Automation

Transcript Excerpt

I'm Jack. And I'm Jon. And today, we're launching Automations in Cursor. As agents have gotten really capable at handling work autonomously, we found ourselves kicking them off over and over again for the same type of task. So we thought, "Why not automate that?" It's been crazy to see the creative use cases that people have come up with. For example, we have an incident triage that gets triggered every time a PagerDuty monitor goes off. This one, Jon loves especially because he hates getting wo...