Cursor has added a deployment step to its AI coding agents: its cloud agents can now carry a web app from a plain-language request to a live, shareable link. The feature, called Build Live Apps, was announced on 5 November, and it closes the gap Cursor itself identified, that agents had made writing code cheap, but most apps people built never left their own machine. The Cursor changelog sets out the new workflow.

The process runs entirely through a cloud agent, not a local one. The user describes the app they want, and the agent scaffolds it, provisions a Postgres database if the app needs stored data, puts sign-in behind Cursor's single sign-on, and sets up hosting. At publish time, the user picks a unique domain and receives a live link. Apps can start from a new repository on Cursor Origin, the company's Git hosting service, or from an existing GitHub repository; support for GitLab and other providers is listed as coming later.

Nothing goes live automatically. Before every publish, Cursor runs security checks designed to catch secrets written into app files or exposed credentials, and the app stays unpublished until the checks pass and the user explicitly publishes it. Team administrators can see every app and secret, add their own review rules, and unpublish apps. Sharing can be limited to named people, groups or the whole team; on individual plans, apps can also be shared publicly.

The feature is available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled, according to the changelog. The move puts Cursor up against app builders such as Lovable and Replit, which already pair an AI builder with hosting, and it follows SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor in August. Cursor has published no hosting price, quota or usage limit for the new apps.