New in Cursor! · Full changelog · Main announcement You can now generate images directly from Cursor’s agent! How it works Describe the image in text or upload a reference to guide the underlying image generation model. Images are returned as an inline preview and saved to your project’s as…

This would be nice if it would work :))) let us know when this will really work :slight_smile:

On the latest early access version, it works great for me, I have to explicitly ask for an image, but so far has worked every time. What model are you using? I did not find anything on image gen in docs, but for example sub agents require max mode on legacy pricing plans, could this possibly be the …

Worked with Auto. Took 13 seconds. [image] Version: 2.4.23

version 2.4.23 :distorted_face: [Screenshot 2026-01-31 at 23.20.31]

yes, I’m on legacy pricing plan, but is this really a reason to disable some functions for me, why not spend 0.1 requests for example on image generation or something like that

My opinion is harsh but honest - it’s a bells and whistles feature few asked for. 2.3 was the right direction fixing bugs and improving stability, please focus on fixing hooks, MCP issues and addressing all the agent view feedback and all the other various issues across the forum I know it’s a Kar…

Hey all, Just to keep you updated, we’ve been in talks with our provider to reduce 429 errors in image generation, and things are moving in the right direction!

Hey @Colin - thanks for keeping us up to date. Contrary to what someone said above - I think it’s a very useful feature - I don’t have to go elsewhere in my dev environment when I need to gen assets! Just a +1 here that I’m on v 2.3.35 and my agent (auto, agent mode) isn’t aware of this skill/tool …

Thanks @grokpot ! [image] grokpot: Just a +1 here that I’m on v 2.3.35 It’s only available in 2.4+, so that’s expected!

@Colin Oops :smiley: Coincidentally, I got the update to 2.4.28 today. The skill looks like it executed, but I get this I’m uploading in my normal root dir of a project where I normally work, and I already have an assets/ folder. [image]

Cursor 2.4: Image Generation

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Topic		Replies	Views
Image Generation Connection Error in Cursor 2.4 Bug Reports auto-mode , image-gen	12	597	March 19, 2026
Image Gen (Nano Banana) fails to trigger despite being called in Model Reasoning Bug Reports image-gen	3	221	February 15, 2026
Unable to generate image Bug Reports anthropic , image-gen	3	461	February 14, 2026
Image generation models not showing up (Settings → Models search “image” returns none) on Cursor 2.6.19 Bug Reports image-gen	8	159	April 15, 2026
Possible Regression in Cursor Image Editing / Img2Img Pipeline Bug Reports gemini , image-gen	3	27	May 3, 2026

Cursor 2.4: Image Generation

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