Cursor Automations: Agents Window Integration and Multi-Repo Support
CursorCursor expanded its Automations feature in version 3.5, bringing it directly into the Agents Window alongside running agents — no longer limited to the web dashboard at cursor.com/automations. Multi-repository support is now available, enabling a single automation to span multiple codebases so agents can reason, test, and deliver across an entire project ecosystem. Cursor also introduced repository-free automations, allowing agents to monitor external tools and services without any attached codebase, backed by five new marketplace templates including Slack digest, product analytics, and customer health agents.
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Automations Move Into the Agents Window
Cursor version 3.5, released May 20, 2026, brings a significant expansion to the Automations feature — one of the platform's most powerful tools for running always-on, event-driven agents. Until this release, automations were managed exclusively through the web interface at cursor.com/automations. With 3.5, Cursor has integrated the full automation management experience directly into the Agents Window, the same workspace where developers monitor and interact with their running agents.
This change closes a workflow gap that had frustrated teams using automations heavily: previously, switching between the IDE's agent workspace and a browser tab to manage automations broke context. Now, creating, configuring, and monitoring automations sits in one place alongside everything else.
Multi-Repository Automations
One of the most structurally significant additions is multi-repository support for automations. Engineering work frequently spans more than one codebase — a backend service, a shared library, and a frontend app may all need to be touched by a single task. Previously, an automation could only be attached to a single repository, which either forced narrow task scope or required running multiple separate automations in sequence.
With this release, developers can attach multiple repositories to a single automation. The agent then has full context across all attached repos, allowing it to reason about cross-repo dependencies, make changes in the right places, run tests, and verify the result end-to-end — all within a single automated run.
Repository-Free Automations and New Marketplace Templates
Cursor also recognized that not all automation use cases are code-centric. Some of the most valuable agent workflows involve monitoring external signals — a spike in a product analytics dashboard, a customer health alert, an unusual pattern in financial metrics — and taking action in response.
To support this, automations can now be created without any attached repository. This unlocks a new class of agents that purely observe and act on external tools. To jumpstart adoption, Cursor added five new marketplace templates:
- Slack digest agent — surfaces relevant Slack activity on a schedule
- Product analytics agent — monitors key metrics and flags anomalies
- Product FAQ agent — answers recurring product questions automatically
- Product finance agent — tracks financial signals and generates reports
- Customer health agent — monitors customer engagement and surfaces churn risk
Pricing and Promotional Offer
For the seven days following the release, Cursor offered a 50% discount on all agent runs for newly created automations — an incentive to encourage teams to experiment with the new multi-repo and no-repo capabilities immediately.
Bug Fixes
This release also addressed terminal interaction issues in the Agents Window, including problems with editing shortcuts and edge cases in approval and overlay handling.