Steer an agent without cancelling its current work
A way to add a message to an agent’s next turn while a subagent keeps going.
- Category
- Developer tools
- Who it is for
- Developers running coding agents on long tasks.
- Possible model
- API
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Inspired by
- Cursor SDK · Cursor
- Original launch
- Watch the launch · Oct 5, 2026
Difficulty is an editorial estimate of technical and operational complexity, not a score.
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The problem
Correcting an agent mid-task either interrupts it or arrives too late to matter.
Who would pay for this?
Developers running coding agents on long tasks.
How could it make money?
A possible model is api. That is an editorial guess from the shape of the launch, not a published price, and not evidence that Cursor uses it.
What would the MVP look like?
One call that queues a note for the next turn and leaves background work alone.
Original product launch
This launch is inspiration and evidence that someone shipped, not a partnership. The idea above is our reading of the broader opportunity. Cursor did not write it.
- Product
- Cursor SDK
- Company
- Cursor
- Film
- Steer Cursor SDK agents mid-run
- Posted
- Oct 5, 2026 · 0:20
Product that inspired this idea
run.steer() adds a message to the agent’s next turn. A subagent already working stays in the background.
Posted by @cursor_ai. Launch page. No separate product site is listed unless the post itself is the source.
- agents
- sdk
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