Cursor Self-Hosted Machines put tool execution on your workers
Cursor published Self-Hosted Machines on 2026-09-02: cloud agents can execute on dynamically scheduled pools of machines inside your network. You manage the infrastructure; agents are still started and managed from Cursor. Cursor-hosted VMs remain the default. Self-Hosted Machines move tool execution onto a worker you run, while inference and planning stay in the Cursor cloud.
That changes a concrete builder decision: where do agent tool calls run when the product repo, internal services, GPUs, Macs, or build pipelines cannot live inside Cursor's hosted VM? It does not replace owning the product repository—screens, schema, auth, billing, prompts, and deploy still need a home agents can edit.
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