After thinking about Background Agents on Github Issues - #2 by T1000 I come to realize that the simplest/easiest solution would be for Cursor to release its Background Agents as APIs inside Cursor MCP. People could authenticate with their account and ask to spawn a Background for some repo and a t…

Hi @lucis and thank you for the feature request. It is a common request by Cursor users in the Forum and Cursor Team is aware of the requests. :slight_smile: For now no new info is available but I agree on the feature being a good idea. I will merge your thread with others on same topic.

Idea: API to spawn Background Agents

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Trigger Background Agent Programmatically

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Idea: API to spawn Background Agents

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