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The right surface: Cloud Agents — Long-Running Agents

Make the call on "When should you reach for Cloud Agents, Long-Running Agents?" Name the clue that decides it.

Step 1 of 3

Done means you can decide when long-running capability fits and scope a governed cloud task.

Use Cloud AgentsAgents that run in a Cursor-managed virtual machine, check out the repo, do the work and open a pull request, then shut down, with no load on your laptop. Press Enter for the full definition. — Long-Running Agents when a migration or from-scratch build is too long for a single short run. Keep the boundary narrow.

Where this fits
Entry point
The team Long-Running Agents capability plus a bounded cloud task
Source
Cursor Cloud AgentsAgents that run in a Cursor-managed virtual machine, check out the repo, do the work and open a pull request, then shut down, with no load on your laptop. Press Enter for the full definition. settings and field-engineering sessions on long-running agents

Use the source as the product reference.