What's this about?
Cursor can queue new guidance for an agent's next turn without killing its current tool action. Subagents already working continue in the background.
What exactly is steering?
It is a mid-task correction—“also check the migration” or “do not touch that file”—delivered at a safe boundary rather than restarting the whole run.
What's the community saying?
Cursor's demo drew 1,051 likes and 97 replies.
- Developers value preserving work already completed by long-running agents.
- Applying messages at tool boundaries is safer than interrupting writes midway.
- Background subagents make state visibility and cancellation controls more important.