Cursor Glass: Unified Agent Workspace with Cloud Handoff in Early Access
Cursor has released Glass, a new unified workspace experience in early alpha that brings together agents, repositories, and cloud tasks into a single interface. The most notable feature is Cloud Handoff, which allows agents to seamlessly switch between running on your local machine and Cursor's cloud instances.
Glass represents Cursor's answer to cloud-native coding agents like OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. Instead of choosing between local and cloud execution, Glass lets agents fluidly move between the two — start a task locally, hand it off to the cloud when you step away, and pick up the results when you return. This addresses a key friction point in agent-assisted development: long-running tasks that block local resources.
The early alpha is available at cursor.com/glass for existing Cursor users. Glass builds on Cursor's existing cloud agent capabilities (launched February 2026) which gave agents their own virtual machines for testing, artifact generation, and producing merge-ready pull requests.
For the agentic coding ecosystem, Glass signals a convergence of local and cloud agent execution models. Rather than forcing developers to choose one paradigm, the hybrid approach lets agents operate where they're most effective — local for interactive work, cloud for background processing.
More details: https://cursor.com/product
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Glass represents Cursor's answer to cloud-native coding agents like OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. Instead of choosing between local and cloud execution, Glass lets agents fluidly move between the two — start a task locally, hand it off to the cloud when you step away, and pick up the results when you return. This addresses a key friction point in agent-assisted development: long-running tasks that block local resources.
The early alpha is available at cursor.com/glass for existing Cursor users. Glass builds on Cursor's existing cloud agent capabilities (launched February 2026) which gave agents their own virtual machines for testing, artifact generation, and producing merge-ready pull requests.
For the agentic coding ecosystem, Glass signals a convergence of local and cloud agent execution models. Rather than forcing developers to choose one paradigm, the hybrid approach lets agents operate where they're most effective — local for interactive work, cloud for background processing.
More details: https://cursor.com/product