Cursor wants you to let you take your hands off the wheel.

The AI coding firm on Thursday launched “always-on agents,” or automated systems that run continuously in response to a company’s operations. These agents can connect to a company’s Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty or work on scheduled timers without developer intervention.

In a blog post, Cursor noted that, while coding agents are now handling the majority of code writing, there are tons of other tasks surrounding software development that still pile up, such as code review, monitoring, and maintenance, which “haven’t sped up to the same extent yet.”

“At Cursor, we’ve been using automations to help scale these other parts of the development lifecycle,” the company said in its announcement.

In testing automated agents within its own codebases, the company found two main areas of success:

• Review and monitoring, in which agents catch and fix anything from style inconsistencies to security pitfalls. These tasks include security reviews, incident response, and agentic “codeowners” for decision-making.
• They also found benefits from automating chores such as weekly change summaries, testing and bug report triage.

Cursor sits at the center of one of AI’s hottest markets. This is evidenced by its own success, reportedly hitting $2 billion in annualized revenue after seeing its run rate double over the past three months.

Cursor was one of the hottest companies in the AI space in 2025, raising more than $2 billion in funding at a valuation of nearly $30 billion in November. But now, the company is competing for customers with perhaps the two most formidable AI firms in the space: Anthropic with Claude Code and OpenAI with Codex. As both of these AI giants step up their coding game to compete with one another, companies like Cursor have to find new ways to innovate and new niches to own. Though this could be an attempt to go beyond the competition, removing the human from some of these processes presents its own security risks.

Our Deeper View

This week in San Francisco, The Deep View hosted a dinner with several startup founders and technology executives from across multiple industries. One of the main topics that came up was how AI coding tools, vibe coding, and software development have been completely transformed, even in just the past eight weeks. Every company we talked to is now moving faster, iterating constantly, and completely upending a lot of their traditional systems and processes because of these tools. But surely these swift changes will create new gaps and inconsistencies in the modern code-building process, and it looks like these are the places Cursor wants to step in with solutions.