Improvements to Cursor in Slack

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.

Side Chats and Conversation Search

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.

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.

Redesigned project and repo pickers

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.

  • Improved repo picker grouping with options under No Repo, On This Computer, and Cloud.
  • Added the "Run on" picker that shows where your agent can run (Cloud, This Computer, or Remote Machines) and drills into the relevant choices (environments, local options, and so on) from there.
  • The branch picker opens on your default branch and recently used branches instead of a long flat list, with search for everything else.
  • Removed the Home concept so working without a repo is an explicit No Repo choice.
  • Combined all remote options—your machines, team pools, and existing remote workspaces—into one searchable Remote Machines menu.
  • Multi-repo and multi-root selection is a Select Multiple toggle inside the Cloud and This Computer flyouts, replacing the separate Set Up Workspace builder.
  • Moved search to the top of the menu.
  • Simplified the footer.
  • Added the ability to find the No Repo option by typing none or no repo.
  • If a repo exists only in the cloud, the picker suggests cloning it locally.
  • Added clearer section dividers.
  • Added folder icons with a small cloud badge for cloud repos.
  • Removed redundant Current tag in the branch list.

MCPs and Organizations in Team Marketplaces

We've expanded team marketplaces to support Team MCPs and organization groups.

Team MCPs in team marketplaces

Admins can now configure Team MCP servers once and distribute them across cloud agents, the agents window, IDE, and CLI.

When an admin sets up Team MCP servers for cloud agents, they can make those same servers available in a team marketplace from Dashboard -> Integrations & MCP. This allows members of the team to install approved integrations locally without configuring servers themselves.

Learn more in the docs on migrating existing Team MCPs.

Team MCP servers

Marketplace access by organization group

Team marketplaces now support organization groups, in addition to team-level SCIM directory groups.

Marketplace organization groups

Under Dashboard -> Plugins -> Team Marketplaces, restrict marketplace access to specific organization groups. Marketplaces that already use SCIM directory groups keep that configuration.

Get started in the Cursor dashboard.

Cursor Mobile App for iOS

Cursor for iOS is now available in public beta on all paid plans. Launch and manage always-on agents from anywhere.

Cloud agents on mobile

Open the Cursor mobile app, choose a repo, and launch an agent the same way you would on the desktop app. Pick any frontier model, describe ideas out loud with voice input, and use slash commands to guide Cursor in the right direction.

Cloud agents run in isolated virtual machines with full development environments to test, verify, and demo work. Move sessions from local to cloud to keep them running with your laptop closed.

Remote Control

Use Remote Control in the Agents Window to take an agent you're running on your computer and keep directing it from your phone.

Remote Control

You can also turn on a setting to keep your computer awake, so your machine stays reachable while you're away from your desk.

On Teams and Enterprise plans, admins must enable Remote Control from the Cursor Dashboard.

Live Activities and push notifications

Track the status of your agents with Live Activities on your lock screen. Get push notifications when an agent finishes, needs input, or is ready for review.

Artifacts and SCM

Review demos, screenshots, logs, and diffs from your phone. Leave follow-up instructions, or merge the PR directly from the app.

Download Cursor for iOS to start building from your phone. Read our announcement or the docs to learn more.

Customize Cursor

Plugins, skills, and MCPs let you customize Cursor for your workflows. The new Customize page brings them into one place.

You can now add and manage plugins, skills, MCPs, subagents, rules, commands, and hooks at the user, team, or workspace level, and even bring your own custom MCPs.

Marketplace leaderboard

Cursor now shows you a leaderboard of the most popular plugins, skills, and MCPs across your team.

Add any to your setup with one click from the new Customize page and extend Cursor for your workflow.

Plugin canvases

Plugins now support prebuilt canvases: shared setup templates your team can open and reuse.

Use the Hex Canvas to build data visualizations.

Use the Atlassian Canvas to see a realtime view of all our issues, projects, and documents.

New Team Marketplaces

Team marketplaces now support imports of plugin repositories from GitLab, BitBucket, or Azure DevOps so you easily add plugins and distribute them to your team.

Learn more in our docs.