Cursor can now build and deploy live apps
Cursor now takes a prompt all the way to a deployed web app, with a database, SSO and hosting set up for it, moving the coding tool into territory held by Replit, Lovable and v0.
Cursor announced that users can now build live apps in the editor and share them with a link. The company frames it as a fix for a common problem: agents have made code cheaper to write, but most apps users build "never make it off of localhost."
To use it, users start a cloud agent and say they want to build an app. Cursor builds the web app, spins up a Postgres database if one is needed, sets up authentication behind Cursor SSO, and provisions hosting. If the app needs to connect to outside systems, such as a data warehouse, the agent asks for the required secrets. When publishing, the user picks a unique domain and gets back a live URL.
Before anything goes live, Cursor runs deterministic and agentic security checks. These catch common problems such as secrets written into app files or exposed credentials. Nothing is deployed until the checks pass and the user explicitly publishes. Team admins can see every app and secret, add their own review rules, approve publishes the review blocked, and unpublish any app.
Apps can be shared with specific people, groups or a whole team, always behind Cursor sign-in. On individual plans, apps can also be shared publicly. Users can also provision API keys so scripts or bots can call an app.
Cursor can deploy from new or existing repos on Cursor Origin and GitHub, and says GitLab support is coming soon. Internally, Cursor says sales, operations, legal, finance and engineering staff use the feature to build ops tools, dashboards, onboarding material and customer presentations.
The feature is available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled. Cursor did not give pricing for hosting or usage limits.