The corporate behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched an online app on Monday that permits customers to handle a community of coding brokers instantly from their browser.
The launch marks Cursor’s subsequent large step past its built-in improvement surroundings (IDE), the core product builders use to entry its instruments. Whereas Anysphere, the corporate behind Cursor, initially provided solely this AI-powered IDE, the corporate has made a concerted effort to place its merchandise in additional locations, and develop extra agent-powered experiences for customers.
In Could, Cursor launched background brokers — AI programs that resolve coding duties autonomously with out person supervision. In June, the corporate launched a Slack integration that permits customers to assign duties to those background brokers by tagging @Cursor, much like how Cognitions’s AI coding agent, Devin, operates.
Now, with the online app, Cursor customers can ship pure language requests through browser — on desktop or cell— to assign background brokers duties equivalent to writing options or fixing bugs of their codebase. The online app additionally lets customers monitor brokers engaged on different duties, view their progress, and merge accomplished modifications into the codebase.
Andrew Milich, Cursor’s head of product engineering, tells Trendster that the Slack integration and net app are a part of an effort to “take away the friction” for customers who depend on Cursor — and it appears many do.
Anysphere introduced final month that Cursor has crossed $500 million in annualized recurring income, largely pushed by month-to-month subscriptions. The corporate additionally mentioned Cursor is now utilized by greater than half of the Fortune 500, together with corporations equivalent to NVIDIA, Uber, and Adobe.
To capitalize on this progress, Anysphere just lately launched a $200-per-month Professional tier for Cursor.
“You famous how clients need Cursor in additional locations. I believe additionally they need Cursor to unravel extra of the issues they’re having,” mentioned Milich.
Cursor’s background brokers are designed to let customers begin duties by Slack or the online app, permitting an agent to take a primary move. If the agent can’t full the duty, customers can seamlessly transition into the IDE to select up the place the agent left off. Every agent additionally has a singular shareable hyperlink — making it straightforward to view progress and code modifications on brokers that different teammates created.
Anysphere says all clients with entry to background brokers can use the Cursor net app — that features subscribers to Cursor’s $20-per-month Professional plan, in addition to costlier plans, however not customers on Cursor’s free tier.
Cursor isn’t the primary to ship AI coding brokers, however the firm says it has been cautious to take its time and never ship “demo-ware” — AI merchandise that look good in idea however fail in follow. That has been the story for lots of early AI coding brokers, which made quite a few errors in testing.
The group behind Cursor now believes AI reasoning fashions are advancing sufficient to make coding brokers viable. In a current interview with Stratechery’s Ben Thompson, Anysphere CEO Michael Truell mentioned he expects AI coding brokers to deal with no less than 20% of a software program engineer’s work by 2026.
