I read that in Cursor 0.50 it should be possible to run agents in the background, and in fact I think I saw a button to this effect at one point, but I can’t seem to find this feature any more. Was it rolled back? If not, can you point me to the button of keyboard shortcut to do this? I basically want to instruct my agent to run unit tests after every edit, and of course I want to run the unit tests in the background while I type additional instructions in another chat.
Hi, the background agent is still there
You can go to Cursor settings and turn on the Background Agent.
Then it will be visible in Chat as an icon.
You may need to read more about the feature in Cursor Documentation (top right of forum), as the feature works different from what you assume.
Background agent works on separate tasks, can’t be just handed off between chats. But it can write tests.