Cursor background agents clear a morning queue of maintenance PRs
At a glance
Zachary Proser queues 5–7 maintenance, bugfix, and small-feature tasks each morning; Cursor background agents clone sandboxes, branch, and open draft PRs with ~70–80% one-shot success. This workflow is listed under Cursor, GitHub, Background-Agents, Maintenance, DevTools.
On HN, joshgachnang says Cursor Cloud Agents keep multiple workstreams going for his team, and computer use lets agents actually test features and show they work on PRs—alongside Bugbot as their best AI reviewer so far.
A developer routed Grok Bot through their ChatGPT Pro subscription after hitting cloud-agent limits, calling remote Codex environments clunkier than Cursor but workable.
An Indie Hackers founder almost shipped a no-auth “delete all users” endpoint Claude cheerfully wrote for a supposed test env—then built Thorim, a one-command layer of specialist agents/skills that makes coding agents challenge unsafe requests.
Zack Proser's review describes assigning repository-and-branch-specific maintenance jobs to Cursor Agents, following up in each task's own context, and opening the changes directly in the editor for hands-on refinement.