Glossary

Cloud agent

Also: cloud agent · Cloud Agents

An agent that works in its own virtual machine with a clone of the repo and keeps going without your computer. The result usually arrives as a pull request.

Example

An @cursor comment on a GitHub issue starts a Cursor Cloud Agent that prepares changes on a separate branch.

Where it shows up

Types of AI agents: where they run and how they're built — Post 4 of 8
The fleet: several agents, orchestration and background work — Post 8 of 8

Related terms

Background agentagent view Agent fleetfleet Non-interactive modeheadless

Source

Cursor — Cloud Agents