Tag: cloud-agents

Pick Copilot coding agent when the work starts and ends on GitHub and you want issue-to-PR with native branch protection. Pick Cursor cloud agents when you want a live, editor-attached VM, multi-repo tasks, and to take over the run by hand. Full feature matrix, the 59-minute cap, the Actions-approval gotcha, and June 2026 billing for both.

Commit .cursor/mcp.json for the IDE, register shared servers under Dashboard > Integrations & MCP for cloud agents, and keep secrets out of git with ${env:...}. The full two-surface setup for Cursor 3.11 (July 2026), including why the repo file alone does not reach cloud agents.

Step-by-step guide to the Cursor in Jira integration (launched May 19, 2026): install the Marketplace app, assign a ticket to @Cursor, wire repository access and automation rules, and read the PR the cloud agent links back.

Cursor 3.4 (May 13, 2026) lets one cloud agent environment include multiple repositories, adds Dockerfile build secrets, layer-cached rebuilds that run 70% faster, and an agent-led setup step that validates credentials before the first run.