Background / Cloud Agents and longer-horizon work

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. are the part of the surface that most reads as "the future of software engineering," which makes them the part an interviewer most wants to hear you reason about honestly.

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. run in isolated cloud VMs with terminal and browser access and the June 2026 update added guided environment setup, reusable snapshots, .cursor/environment.json, /in-cloud subagents, /babysit and local/cloud handoff. They don't need your laptop open, but they still need a reviewable task and a checkable handoff.