I am using the cursor cli. I tried the goal command and all I see is that it has been running for a day now. I have tried looking everywhere in the Web/GUI but I can only see logs of my expenditures. I see nothing in the cli to give me information on what is happening nor in the Web or Apps - the web and apps don’t show anything related to the projects I work on (it is the same account - I only have one).
(Update) Cussing at the agent finally made it stop the “goal task”. I still have no insight into what it was doing if anything. Or even if it is running elsewhere.
The /goal command sets a persistent objective on that CLI conversation. While the session sits open and idle, Cursor keeps starting new turns on its own to work toward the goal, which is why you see “Goal active” with a growing timer, and why your usage page keeps recording activity.
A goal started in the CLI runs inside that CLI session on your machine. It is not a Cloud Agent, so it will not show up at cursor.com/agents or in the apps. That is expected, the usage page is currently the only place its activity appears outside the CLI itself.
To stop it: press Ctrl+C in the CLI to interrupt the current run (this pauses the goal), then exit the session with /quit. Once the CLI is closed, no further work or usage happens.
If you later reopen that conversation and send a new message, the paused goal becomes active again. To end it for good, tell the agent something like “mark the goal as complete and stop” before you quit, and it will close the goal out.