Cursor launched a new tool called Automations on Thursday, designed to automatically launch coding agents triggered by codebase additions, Slack messages, or timers.
The system aims to manage the complexity of overseeing multiple agents and expands on existing features to handle security audits and thorough reviews. Cursor estimates the system runs hundreds of automations per hour, including incident response triggered by PagerDuty to query server logs and weekly codebase summaries sent to Slack.
Automations builds on the existing Bugbot feature, which reviews new code for bugs. Using Automations, Cursor has expanded that system to more involved security audits, according to the company.
“It’s not that humans are completely out of the picture,” said Jonas Nelle, Cursor’s engineering chief for asynchronous agents. “It’s that they aren’t always initiating. They’re called in at the right points in this conveyor belt.”
OpenAI and Anthropic made significant updates to their agentic coding tools in the past month, intensifying competition in the space. Ramp data shows Cursor’s market share holding steady since May, with roughly 25% of generative AI clients subscribing to Cursor.
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported Cursor’s annual revenue grew to more than $2 billion, doubling over the past three months.
