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Cursor Launches Automations to Orchestrate Always-On Coding Agents

The event-driven system shifts engineers from manual prompting toward targeted oversight.

Overview

  • Automations can start agents on code changes, Slack messages, or timers, with additional triggers such as merged GitHub pull requests, new Linear issues, PagerDuty incidents, and custom webhooks.
  • The long-running Bugbot now performs deeper security audits and broader code reviews through the new framework.
  • Cursor reports running hundreds of automations per hour across code review, security checks, incident response, and internal reporting.
  • For incidents, PagerDuty can launch agents that query logs via MCP and Datadog, analyze recent changes, notify on-call staff in Slack, and propose fixes through automated pull requests.
  • The release comes in a crowded agentic-coding market with recent updates from OpenAI and Anthropic, as Ramp estimates Cursor at roughly 25% market share and Bloomberg reports annual revenue above $2 billion after doubling in the past three months.