Background agents - cloud or local machine?

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Maybe I’m being really dumb, but I sort of just assumed that background agents ran on some Cloud infrastructure, hosted by Cursor.

Which means I could exit Cursor, or turn off my machine, and there would be lovely new Pull Request sitting for me in the morning - is this not the case? Are they actually in the background on my local machine?

I ask as the fans started whirring during a Background Agent task, which got me thinking, perhaps I was wrong.

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Hi @mwjt42 you are right that the Background Agent operates on a Cloud server.

In this case its AWS. Note this was mentioned in the Documentation, near the end.

There is however at times a connection to local machine as it needs to update settings, share progress and files with your local system.

I am not aware what happens to the cloud server when you shut down your own machine, but would assume it still continues.