Watch: How to Use Cursor Background Agents to Run AI Tasks in the Cloud

Cursor just released background agents, a powerful new feature that lets you run AI agents in the cloud using Docker — perfect for automating tasks, submitting pull requests, and boosting dev productivity. In this video, I’ll walk you through what Cursor background agents are, how they work, and why this update is a huge step forward for AI-assisted coding.

The setup scripts for this episode are available here:
https://gist.github.com/phawk/d6b03f56e033df4af01b2dbe05d53212