Background Agents on Github Issues

Ideas Feature Requests
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Github issues is the best way to plan tasks for Background Agents.

Now we only need a way for Cursor to work on top of it, similar to @claude from Anthropic.

Example from Claude: Reorganize agent's screen tabs · Issue #609 · deco-cx/chat · GitHub

The killer feature will be correctly running compiler and linting (which I believe BA intend to).

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It should work with Background Agents, sure it would be cooler directly from issues :slight_smile:

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Trigger Background Agent Programmatically
Idea: API to spawn Background Agents
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Why is Github where next-gen software engineering will happen?

  • The best UI/UX to interact with CI capabilities (testing, deploy preview)
  • Built-in project management (Linear-like) tools to discuss and refine product requirements
  • Powerful API to bring external apps in (Figma automatically commenting on issues)
  • Pull Request review UX well polished

I know they might do something of themselves that might conflict with Cursor. But, even with that, I think it’s worth being there.

What Cursor does best:

  • Smart context providing (cache, apply models)
  • Background Agents infra with capabilities (running compilers, linters)
  • Being as fast and as accurate as possible

This is very useful if coupled with Github.

Rebuilding Github UX is feasible, but I don’t know…

cc @deanrie

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Hi there!

Is there a chrome extension/github integration for Cursor where inside of the Github website, I can go to an issue and ask Cursor to start a background job to fix the issue?

Asking because I’m in love with the Slack integration and would love something similar for issues/comment threads in Github.

Thanks a lot!

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@TravelingTice not yet but Cursor Team is aware of the feature request :slight_smile:

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I think they are almost there. It already works now for BA PRs. So we only need to be able to start it from issues and with its context.

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