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 compi…

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

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…

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 …

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.

Background Agents on Github Issues

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condor (Condor (Tee)) July 3, 2025, 3:07pm 5

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

Topic		Replies	Views
Cursorbot: commit a PR from a GH issue Feature Requests	15	3658	November 10, 2025
Background Agents API Feature Requests	19	1786	August 29, 2025
Linear x Cursor Background Agent Integration Feature Requests	10	764	December 20, 2025
Cursor CLI (like Claude Code) Feature Requests	13	2520	August 25, 2025
Cursor SDK to use Cursor in GH Actions Feature Requests	0	113	May 31, 2025

Background Agents on Github Issues

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