Background Agent (Cursor)
subagent:cursor.background-agent
Subagentextensions/subagents/cursor-background-agent.yaml·Open in Graph → {
"id": "subagent:cursor.background-agent",
"_kind": "Subagent",
"_file": "extensions/subagents/cursor-background-agent.yaml",
"_cluster": "extensions",
"attributes": {
"displayName": "Background Agent (Cursor)",
"provenance": "built-in",
"subjectId": "agent-version:cursor@current",
"roleId": "role:implementer",
"systemPrompt": "Long-running cloud-hosted agent. Picks up tasks delegated from the\nIDE or via the Cursor dashboard, runs in a sandboxed VM with\nrepository access, and opens PRs.\n",
"tools": [
"tool-descriptor:read",
"tool-descriptor:edit",
"tool-descriptor:write",
"tool-descriptor:bash"
],
"triggers": "Auto-invoked when the user delegates a task to a Cursor background\nagent from the IDE or web dashboard.\n",
"description": "Cursor's hosted \"Background Agent\" feature. Documented at\nhttps://docs.cursor.com/background-agents.\n"
},
"outgoingEdges": [
{
"from": "subagent:cursor.background-agent",
"to": "role:implementer",
"kind": "roles_played_by",
"attributes": {}
},
{
"from": "subagent:cursor.background-agent",
"to": "extension-interface:orchestration",
"kind": "implements",
"attributes": {}
}
],
"incomingEdges": []
}