We're introducing Cursor Start, a new ₹649 monthly plan for developers in India, making daily agentic development accessible and payment easy with local pricing and UPI.

Existing Free users in India can upgrade their plan from the dashboard. New users in India can visit cursor.com/signup and select the Start plan during onboarding.

Start bills monthly with auto-renewal and is available from July 28, 2026.

Cursor Start includes:

• Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5, our most powerful model, and Composer, our most price-efficient coding model, with enough usage to build with agents every day.
• Always-on cloud agents that build, test, and ship code while you keep working.
• Cursor for iOS with remote control, so you can launch and steer agents from your phone.
• Plugins, MCP servers, hooks, and skills to extend Cursor across your workflows.
• Local pricing at ₹649 per month, tax inclusive, billed in INR with UPI or card.

Learn more in our announcement and docs.

Auto mode is now powered by Cursor Router.

Cursor Router is our intelligent model router. It analyzes each request and sends it to the right model for the job. Frontier models handle work that demands them. Price-efficient models handle the rest.

#Optimization modes

Select Auto, then choose how the router optimizes:

• Intelligence: Frontier quality, matching the most expensive and powerful models that might be out of reach for daily use.
• Balance: Strong quality, matching the frontier models that most people like to daily drive.
• Cost: Good quality, reaching the highest available intelligence while optimizing token spend.

Balance and Intelligence bill at the routed model’s rate. Each mode moves you along the cost-intelligence pareto frontier.

#Admin controls

Admins can enable the router per team or group, restrict which optimization modes members can use, set the default mode, and allow or block underlying models.

Cursor Router is available across desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and our SDK. It is on by default for Teams plans. Enterprise admins can enable it from the dashboard.

Learn more in our announcement and docs.

Cursor in Slack now shares a plan before it starts, runs in multi-repo environments, and can work across channels and threads.

#Interaction improvements

Cursor now responds with a plan before it begins, so you can jump in and redirect early. As it works, it updates its status so you can follow each step.

We also refined how Cursor's responses look in Slack. In-message buttons are gone, replaced by compact footer links. Tables, PRs, and artifacts now render more cleanly.

#Multi-repo environment support

From Slack, Cursor can now start in a named multi-repo environment instead of a single default repository. If your frontend, backend, and shared code live in separate repos, Cursor reads your request and targets the environment that gives it access to all of them.

Mid-task, when Cursor needs a repo outside the current environment, it prompts you with a Switch repository button. Click it, choose the repo or environment, and Cursor picks up right where it left off.

#Cross-channel workflows

Cursor can now read from and send messages to other Slack channels and threads. During a task, it can pull context from elsewhere in the workspace and post updates back in the original thread or the relevant channel.

Learn more in our Slack docs.

This release makes it easier to stay in flow with side chats that run alongside your main chat, the ability to search agent transcripts, and simplified project and repo pickers.

#Side chats

Open a side chat to ask questions, explore ideas, and investigate tangents without interrupting your main agent conversation. Use /side, /btw, or the plus button at the top of the chat panel to create a new side chat that has context from the main chat.

Each side chat is a durable, full agent conversation that you can follow up on, revisit later, and at-mention to pull context back into the main thread.

By default, side chats focus on reading, searching, and answering. Use them to ask clarification questions, research alternatives without committing to a pivot, and sanity-check a decision while the main agent continues running.

#Conversation search

Find past agent chats faster with search results that go beyond names and PR numbers. In the Agents Window, you can search agent transcripts from the command palette (Cmd+K). Cursor builds a local search index that scales search to thousands of conversations with snappy performance.

You can also search within an existing conversation using Cmd+F. Jump between matches, see a match counter, and keep searching as you scroll through long transcripts.

#Redesigned project and repo pickers

We've simplified the project and repo pickers and made them more powerful. You can now stay in the picker for workflows that used to send you elsewhere. For example, you can create a project and connect GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps without leaving the picker.

Search is now scoped to where you're working—This Computer, Cloud, or a specific remote machine—instead of one global search box. You can also remove projects from Recents with one click.

#New cloud agent hooks

Cloud agents already support team hooks around tool execution and file/shell work. We've added new hooks that let you observe and control the agent conversation itself: prompts, responses, thinking, subagents, compaction, and turn completion. See all the supported hooks in our docs.

New hooks like beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentResponse, afterAgentThought, stop, subagentStart, and more allow you to better observe output and reasoning, control subagents, and build self-correcting loops with cloud agents.