Async Dev Workflow: Start Cursor Agents from Your Phone, Finish Locally

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-07-08 · Open on X

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

Summary

The creator describes an asynchronous coding workflow. Before bed, he used the Cursor mobile app to start a cloud agent on a feature request and have it prepare a PR. In the morning, he pulled the branch to his laptop and finished the work locally. He says the Fable model in Cursor gave a merge-ready PR with no rework.

Key points

• Use the Cursor mobile app to start a background agent when you are away from your laptop.
• Ask the agent whether a feature is possible and to turn it into a PR.
• Review the agent's answer and branch the next morning.
• Pull the agent's branch to your local setup and finish the work there.
• The creator reports that Claude Fable 5 in Cursor produced a merge-ready PR with no rework.
• Takeaway: hand off exploratory feature work to agents asynchronously, then review and finish it yourself.

Resources mentioned

• Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
  Also in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 121 more
• Cursor mobile app · tool · cursor.com · check price
  Cursor's mobile app for starting and checking coding agents from your phone.
• Fable · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Named as what the creator used with Devin for this build; the post gives no details about what it is.
  Also in: Demo: One-Shotting a Flappy Bird iPhone App with Devin and Fable 5.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Subagents with mixed models: a strong planner and a fast executor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cognition's SWE-2 Coding Model Now in Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-6 Astra Access Across Plans vs Fable on Claude Max (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 10 more

Try this

• Try starting a Cursor agent from the mobile app for a feature request when you are away from your computer.
• Pull the agent's branch locally, review it and finish the work before merging.