Self-hosted workers developer workflows

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I am loving self-hosted workers. I spin up a few workers manually worktrees on my local PC, and then I essentially use the cursor.com/agents to remotely interact with the self-hosted workers while I go for walks or am otherwise not at my PC. This is especially useful because I can’t currently use Glass or the agents window because my local repo is in a devcontainer, which isn’t supported. So this gives me a way to have an agents window on cursor.com/agents that’s even remotely accessible!

This works super well, but here are two annoyances:

  1. Don’t create a new branch! I have existing worktrees on feature branches already. I just want the agent to start working on the existing branch.
  2. Don’t always commit/push! Since it’s a self-hosted agent on my local PC, I like to open up the workspace in my IDE and manually review the code myself, and potentially commit/push myself.

The DX here would be better if you guys were less opinionated about the context automatically given to your “cloud agents”. I get that you’re pushing a particular workflow, but in my case I really am not interested in my agents auto-committing, auto-pushing, and opening PRs by themself.

Just my 2c!

Thanks,
James

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Hey, thanks for the detailed feedback, it’s genuinely helpful.

Both items are on our radar. We already have an issue logged for the self-hosted local worker creating a new branch/PR without an explicit request. The auto-commit/push behavior is part of the same problem. The model is being too pushy with git operations in self-hosted setups, but for workflows with pre-made worktrees, that’s exactly what it shouldn’t do. I also reported your case as an extra signal.

I can’t share a timeline for the fix yet, but the direction is clear: less opinionated git behavior, more “just write the code, the user handles the rest”. I’ll try to follow up when we have updates.

Also, about devcontainer + Glass, the discussion is still going in this thread: Dev container remotes don't work with Glass. Worth subscribing if you haven’t already.