Use Cursor on your Phone and the Web
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By Kevin Kern

Cursor now lets you build from both your phone and the web.
Let's take a look:
How Cursor Background Agents work
Create multiple parallel tasks
You can start and view your tasks on phone, browser or directly in Cursor
The agent works on a separate branch, runs commands automatically
Create PR's, Review them with Cursors Bugbot on Github
Checkout the branch and work on a fix or feature directly in Cursor
How to enable Cursor Background Agents
Go into Cursor Settings (or cursor .com/dashboard) and click "Background Agents"
Connect your GitHub account
Select a repo and branch
Choose your model (only max models are allowed)
How to use Web based Cursor Agents
Open your browser cursor .com/agents
Add a shortcut to your home screen
Start building
In Cursor Code Editor
Ctrl/CMD + E
to spawn Background Agents,send follow-ups or “take over” mid-run.
Environment: You can customize Containers via
.cursor/environment.json
Manage your Tasklist
You can sort and filter your tasklist visually.
View Modes: List and Kanban
Cursor for Web & Phone Review
The Good:
The UI/UX feels good and responds fast (even its not a full native app).
There are a lot of hidden goodies which lets you manage a lot of stuff outside of Cursor.
You can choose from all your repos on github and start building right away.
If you get bored and have some ideas around just open your phone and start some tasks and work on them later when you back on desktop.
Max models are supported which give you the full context window and better results.
The Not so good:
Background Agents are another monster to handle. You deal with a lot of merge conflicts if you doing it wrong and it takes more time to cleanup the mess later.
You don't have any prompt templates or cant use file references which makes specific file changes harder.
Watch your costs. Background Agents can cause additional costs.
No "visual" preview. You still end up in GitHub with PRs and you need to add Vercel/Netlify deployments to preview your results (if you work on something visually).
FAQ's
Open your browser and go to: cursor .com/agents (Note: not available in the App Store)
GitHub Connection Issues: I experience the same. Try again or check if it's already connected
Only Max Mode is allowed (which gives you the full context window)
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