Cursor Automations: Cron, Event Triggers and Model Selection

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-05-14 · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP · Level: intermediate

Summary

Short announcement that Cursor now has Automations. You can schedule them with cron or start them from events, and you can pick which model runs them. This lets you run agent tasks without a person starting each one.

Key points

• Cursor Automations can run on a cron schedule.
• Automations can be started by event triggers.
• You can choose which model runs an automation.
• The feature is at cursor.com/automations and needs a sign-in.

Resources mentioned

• Cursor Automations · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Cursor's automation feature, which runs scheduled agent tasks such as researching AI news and updating site content.
  Also in: Using Cursor Automations to update an AI news page daily, no CMS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Automated daily 'AI News Today' page built with Cursor automations (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Automating a Daily AI News Page with Cursor Automations (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Cursor Automations to Add Missing Test Coverage Daily (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Try this

• Look at Cursor Automations and try a scheduled or event-triggered agent task.