Improvements to Cursor Automations
Cursor Automations save you time by automating repetitive tasks with always-on agents. This release introduces the /automate skill, new triggers for GitHub and Slack, and support for computer use.
/automate skill
Use /automate to create an automation directly in your local agent session.
Describe the task you want to automate in plain language and Cursor will configure the triggers, instructions, and tools for you.
An emoji trigger for Slack
React to any Slack message with a designated emoji to kick off an automation. At Cursor, we use this to trigger specific automations right from Slack.
New GitHub triggers
Automations now support five additional GitHub triggers:
- Issue comment: when a comment is made on a non-PR issue
- PR review comment: when an inline comment is left on a pull request diff
- PR review submitted: when a PR review is submitted
- Review thread updated: when a review thread on a pull request is marked resolved or unresolved
- Workflow run completed: when a GitHub Actions workflow run finishes on a pull request or branch
We've added new templates for triaging failed GitHub actions and auto-fixing PR review comments to the Cursor Marketplace to help you get started.
Computer use tool for automations
Cloud agents kicked off by automations can now use their own computers to produce demos or artifacts of their work.
The computer use tool is enabled by default for every automation, just tell the agent to include a demo of its work in your instructions.
To get started, update to the latest version of Cursor. Learn more in our docs.
- Automations can now be saved in an incomplete state, so you can navigate away to set up an MCP auth without losing your progress
- Automations can now open PRs by default; so you no longer have to specify that tool in the UI
- You can now delete memory files in the UI, or prompt your automation to delete outdated memories when it runs