Software & DevOpsDone with Cursor 2026-10-13
Queue maintenance and bug fixes for Cursor background agents
A developer authorized the GitHub app so Cursor background agents cloned repos into sandboxes, branched, and worked through a day's queue of maintenance, features and bug fixes.
- What They Did
- Zachary Proser authorized Cursor's GitHub app for his organizations. Cursor then cloned the repos into sandboxed containers, where the agents ran commands and created branches. Each morning he queued 5-7 maintenance, bug-fix and small feature tasks, each aimed at a chosen repo and branch. He reviewed the changes, sent follow-ups in a per-task chat, or opened the work in the Cursor editor.
- How It Went
- By the time his coffee was done, most tasks were finished or ready for review. He estimates one-shot success at 70-80%, against 40-60% for Codex. Creating a new branch that didn't exist yet errored, and multi-turn branch handling was clunky.
- Worth Knowing
- Agents come with Cursor Pro at $20/month and ran on Claude Sonnet 4. He still did larger refactors and features directly in the editor.
Try it yourself with Cursor
Using the GitHub repo [owner/repo], start background agents for each item in this queue: [bug 1], [maintenance task], [small feature]. For each one, clone into a sandbox, create a separate branch, make the change, run the tests, and open a draft pull request describing what changed. Stop when every item has a draft PR, and do not merge any of them.
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