Cursor Kanban Agent
Malik Farooq
May 1, 2026
Deep Dive
Cursor Kanban Agent: The Drag-and-Drop Board That Opens PRs
Discover the Cursor Kanban Agent, a revolutionary drag-and-drop board that doesn't just track tasks—it completes them by opening Pull Requests on its own.
The project lives in the
sdk/agent-kanbanHow It Works: The Magic of Sandboxing
When a card is dragged into a new column, the front-end calls the Cursor SDK API. The request is served by a dedicated, sandboxed virtual machine.
The Workflow:
- Clone: The agent clones the target repository.
- Execute: It runs the changes and launches tests.
- PR: It opens a Pull Request via GitHub integration.
- Artifacts: It returns screenshots, logs, and output snippets.
The Cursor Cookbook
Cursor didn't just publish the kanban. The cookbook contains four practical examples:
- agent-kanban: The Linear-style board.
- quickstart Node.js: Minimal local agent setup.
- prototyping tool: Generates UI prototypes from prompts.
- coding agent CLI: Terminal tool for repo-wide agents.
Conclusion
The programmatic core of Cursor is now available to everyone via the
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