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Velocity7.5

Cursor now hosts the code its agents work on.

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◆Current state
Cursor has spent two months moving agents out of the editor: cloud agents on iPhone and iPad, in Slack, and on schedules; a team marketplace distributing plugins and MCP servers; a router picking the model per request. Origin adds the last missing layer by hosting repos and pull requests inside Cursor itself. Everything from prompt to merge can now happen without leaving the product.
◆Where it's heading
Each release removes an external dependency or a wait state. Builds keep environments warm so agents skip setup, Cursor Router removes the model-picking decision, and Origin removes the trip to GitHub for browsing, review, and merge. The app tab on Origin repos - Vercel previews, Depot and Buildkite CI - shows Cursor recruiting the vendors that currently attach to GitHub Actions.
◆Prediction
Cursor said agent-native features for Origin ship soon; expect agents that open, review, and merge pull requests against hosted repos without a human starting each one, plus more app-tab integrations along the Vercel/Depot/Buildkite pattern.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Cursor starts hosting repos and pull requests

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    Origin puts repos, pull requests, and code browsing inside Cursor, with two-way GitHub sync for teams that stay put. It is the floor under everything else Cursor shipped this quarter - the agents, the review surface, and now the code all sit behind one login.

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  2. 6d ago

    Cloud agents boot from prebuilt environment snapshots

    Cursor pre-builds development environments in the background so cloud agents start with repos cloned and dependencies installed, reporting 10x faster boots and 3x faster time to first token internally. It attacks the dead time that made cloud agents feel slower than local ones, and it is bundled with Cloud Agents rather than priced separately.

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  3. 21d ago

    Cursor for iPad adds full PR review and an agent inbox

    The iPad app opens to all paid plans, and both mobile apps gain an inbox plus a review screen covering the whole pull request - comments, checks, approvals, reviewer changes. Mobile shifts from watching agents run to closing out their work.

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  4. 28d ago

    Auto mode moves to Cursor Router with cost/intelligence modes

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    Auto mode is now Cursor Router, which reads each request and routes it to a frontier or price-efficient model, with Intelligence, Balance, and Cost settings and admin controls per team. It marks the point where Cursor started treating model selection as its own product surface rather than a dropdown.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Cursor in Slack plans first and works across multiple repos

    The Slack agent now posts a plan before it acts, streams status as it goes, and can start in a named multi-repo environment instead of one default repository. It makes Slack a usable entry point for teams whose frontend, backend, and shared code live apart.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Side chats and searchable agent transcripts

    Side chats spin off a durable sub-conversation with context from the main thread, so questions and tangents do not derail a running agent, and transcript search makes past agent sessions findable. Both are session-management features for people running several agents at once - a workflow Cursor keeps designing around.

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