Cursor Automations: always-on agents triggered by Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty — 35% of Cursor's own PRs now agent-created

Cursor released Automations, a system for building always-on agents that run on schedules or in response to external events — a Slack message, a new Linear issue, a merged GitHub PR, or a PagerDuty incident. Each automation spins up a cloud sandbox, follows configured instructions using specified MCPs and models, and has access to a persistent memory tool that lets it learn from previous runs. Built-in triggers cover Slack, Linear, GitHub, and PagerDuty; custom webhooks are supported for anything else. At launch, Cursor reported that 35% of its own internal PRs are now created by autonomous cloud agents.

This is the transition from IDE to software factory. Cursor Automations take the coding agent from something a developer invokes to something that runs in the background without human initiation — security reviews on every PR push, incident diagnosis when PagerDuty fires, weekly changelogs posted to Slack automatically. These are previously manual or fragile-script workflows that now run continuously.