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Cursor Cloud Agent Canvases: Build and Share Interactive Dashboards

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Cursor now lets cloud agents build interactive canvases as part of their work, such as dashboards and reports. A finished canvas can be shared with teammates by sending its link, so results no longer have to be pulled out of a chat thread. The same release also added a beta Environments API and larger, faster cloud environments.

Key Takeaways

  • Cloud agents can now build interactive canvases, so a background run can end with a dashboard or report instead of only text or a pull request.
  • Sharing works by link, letting teammates open a finished canvas without reading the full agent conversation behind it.
  • Canvases extend cloud agents toward non-code deliverables such as reports and internal tools, which broadens who can benefit from them.
  • Cursor's documentation describes shared canvases as read-only snapshots, and sharing is limited to paid plans, with admins able to disable it for their organization.
  • The release also adds an Environments API in beta, aimed at teams that manage cloud agent environments programmatically.
  • Environments now support up to 300 repositories and large ones load 5x faster, which helps teams with big multi-repo setups.

Cloud agents can now build canvases

Cursor now lets its cloud agents produce interactive canvases as part of their work. Until now, canvases were something an agent created during a local session. With this release, an agent running in the cloud can build one on its own while it works through a task, such as a dashboard, a report or a small internal tool, and hand the result back as a finished artifact.

This changes what a cloud agent run can deliver. A long-running task no longer has to end with a block of text or a pull request alone. It can end with something a person can open, click through and inspect.

Sharing a finished canvas with a team

Once a canvas is ready, it can be shared with teammates by sending its link. Recipients open the canvas directly instead of reading through the full agent conversation that produced it. That makes canvases a practical way to pass results to people who were not involved in the run, such as a manager reviewing a report or a teammate checking an analysis.

Cursor's documentation describes shared canvases as read-only snapshots published from the canvas toolbar. Sharing is limited to teams on paid plans, and admins can turn it off for their organization.

Also in this release

The same changelog entry included two infrastructure-oriented changes for cloud agents. An Environments API is available in beta for programmatically creating and managing the environments agents run in. Cloud agent environments also now support up to 300 repositories, and large environments load 5x faster. These matter mostly to teams running cloud agents at scale, while the canvas support is the change most everyday users will notice.