Agents are solving increasingly complex, long-running tasks across your codebase. This release introduces new agent harness improvements for better context management, as well as many quality-of-life fixes in the editor and CLI.

#Subagents

Subagents are independent agents specialized to handle discrete parts of a parent agent's task. They run in parallel, use their own context, and can be configured with custom prompts, tool access, and models.

The result is faster overall execution, more focused context in your main conversation, and specialized expertise for each subtask.

Cursor includes default subagents for researching your codebase, running terminal commands, and executing parallel work streams. These will automatically start improving the quality of your agent conversations in the editor and the Cursor CLI.

Optionally, you can define custom subagents. Learn more in our docs.

#Skills

Cursor now supports Agent Skills in the editor and CLI. Agents can discover and apply skills when domain-specific knowledge and workflows are relevant. You can also invoke a skill using the slash command menu.

Define skills in SKILL.md files, which can include custom commands, scripts, and instructions for specializing the agent’s capabilities based on the task at hand.

Compared to always-on, declarative rules, skills are better for dynamic context discovery and procedural “how-to” instructions. This gives agents more flexibility while keeping context focused.

#Image generation

Generate images directly from Cursor's agent. Describe the image in text or upload a reference to guide the underlying image generation model (Google Nano Banana Pro).

Images are returned as an inline preview and saved to your project's assets/ folder by default. This is useful for creating UI mockups, product assets, and visualizing architecture diagrams.

#Cursor Blame

On the Enterprise plan, Cursor Blame extends traditional git blame with AI attribution, so you can see exactly what was AI-generated versus human-written.

When reviewing or revisiting code, each line links to a summary of the conversation that produced it, giving you the context and reasoning behind the change.

Cursor Blame distinguishes between code from Tab completions, agent runs (broken down by model), and human edits. It also lets you track AI usage patterns across your team's codebase.

#Clarification questions from the agent

The interactive Q&A tool used by agents in Plan and Debug mode now lets agents ask clarifying questions in any conversation.

While waiting for your response, the agent can continue reading files, making edits, or running commands, then incorporate your answer as soon as it arrives.

You can also build custom subagents and skills that use this tool by instructing them to "use the ask question tool."

This release brings many of the editor’s most-loved features to the Cursor CLI, along with improvements that make it easier to use.

#Plan mode in CLI

Use Plan mode to design your approach before coding. Cursor will ask clarifying questions to refine your plan. Get started with /plan or --mode=plan.

#Ask mode in CLI

Use Ask mode to explore code without making changes, just like in the editor. Start asking questions with /ask or --mode=ask.

#Handoff to Cloud Agents

Push your local conversation to a Cloud Agent and let it keep running while you're away. Prepend & to any message to send it to the cloud, then pick it back up on web or mobile at cursor.com/agents.

#Word-level Inline Diffs

Show exactly what changed with precise word-level highlighting in the CLI.

#One-click MCP authentication

Connect Cursor to external tools and data sources with a new login flow supporting automatic callback handling. The agent gets access to authenticated MCPs immediately.

Use /mcp list for an updated interactive MCP menu to browse, enable, and configure MCP servers at a glance.

This release introduces new CLI controls for models, MCP management, rules and commands, alongside major hooks performance improvements and bug fixes.

#Model list and selection

Use the new agent models command, --list-models flag, or /models slash command to list all available models and quickly switch between them.

#Rules generation and management

Create new rules and edit existing ones directly from the CLI with the /rules command.

#Enabling MCP servers

Enable and disable MCP servers on the fly with /mcp enable and /mcp disable commands.

For this holiday release, we've focused entirely on fixing bugs and improving stability.

This includes the core agent, layout controls, viewing code diffs, and more. We will be slowly rolling these updates out over the week, ensuring there are no regressions during your holiday coding.

#Stability improvements

#Layout customization

It's now easier to customize your default layout across workspaces.

We've included four default layouts: agent, editor, zen, and browser. You can use Command (⌘) + Option (⌥) + Tab (⇥) to switch between layouts, or easily jump between different workspaces. Additionally, you can move backwards in this list by including Shift (⇧), similar to macOS.