Cloud Agent
A cloud-based agent execution environment introduced by Cursor. It runs on hosted remote virtual machines with a full operating system environment (including a desktop GUI), an isolated file system, and a network stack. It supports installing dependencies, launching services, simulating mouse and keyboard input, and recording screen output for verification.
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A Local Agent directly operates on the developer's own file system, whereas a Cloud Agent runs on a remote virtual machine with a complete operating system environment, an independent file system, and a network stack.
The Cloud Agent's virtual machine is destroyed or reset after each session, preventing dirty state from accumulating across multiple tasks.
Each conversation of the cloud agent runs in an isolated virtual machine environment, so even running multiple tasks simultaneously will not cause conflicts from code mutually modifying each other.
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A Local Agent directly operates on the developer's own file system, whereas a Cloud Agent runs on a remote virtual machine with a complete operating system environment, an independent file system, and a network stack.
50%UnverifiedThe Cloud Agent's virtual machine is destroyed or reset after each session, preventing dirty state from accumulating across multiple tasks.
50%UnverifiedEach conversation of the cloud agent runs in an isolated virtual machine environment, so even running multiple tasks simultaneously will not cause conflicts from code mutually modifying each other.
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