Cursor Cloud Agents
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 24 of 41 coding agents by recommenders
Praised for easy repository automation and a pleasant experience; the main caveat is cost, and it uses Cursor's own harness.
Praised for easy repository automation and a pleasant experience; the main caveat is cost, and it uses Cursor's own harness.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy to automate workflows
“i've used them to automate some workflows on certain repositories and they work pretty well”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud” “Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “SpaceX Is Buying Cursor” Nicer, pleasant experience overall
“I've been loving Cursor's cloud agents the last couple weeks”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling of "loss of control" with AI coding?” “found Cursor's cloud agents a nicer experience”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Are you still using AI code autocomplete?” “Cursor Cloud Agents are pretty great”
Comment from 30 Aug 2026 in “Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX”
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| Grok Build CLI | 66 | 114 | 37% | 6 | — | — |
| DeepSeek Harness | 63 | 28 | 69% | 4 | 1 mo5 owners | Approved |
| Cursor Cloud AgentsThis page | 12 | 2 | 86% | 5 | — | Approved |
What people said
12 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“positively surprised when Cursor Cloud used its VM to make nice screen shots and recordings”
“Cursor Cloud Agents and Amp Orbs are the coolest things I've ever seen, but they cost money”
“Cursor Cloud Agents are pretty great”
“this has become a big part of our workflow”
“found Cursor's cloud agents a nicer experience”
“The cloud agents are significantly more limiting.”
“I've been loving Cursor's cloud agents the last couple weeks”
“Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.”
“Cursor only uses their custom harness, and we liked using the actual Codex/CC harnesses directly”
“impossible to run on any managed agent platform”
“i've used them to automate some workflows on certain repositories and they work pretty well”
“Cursor Cloud has that area locked down right now”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.