OneRange

What's New in Cursor

A short refresher on the latest Cursor updates

What this course covers

The course runs across 7 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

  • Fake Claude Code extension pulled from marketplace — What's different: Cursor found and removed two malicious versions of the Claude Code extension from its extension marketplace, briefly shut the marketplace down, and rebuilt it with new keys. Why it matters for your work: Anyone who installed or updated that extension on October 29 on Mac or Windows may have a hidden backdoor and needs to follow Cursor's cleanup steps. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open the extensions panel, check whether the Claude Code extension is installed and which version it shows, and if it was updated on October 29, open Cursor's security notice and run the cleanup steps for your computer. No access? Here's what you'd see: The Cursor extension marketplace no longer contains the two malicious versions of the Claude Code extension.
  • Cloud agents can build shareable canvases — What's different: Cloud agents can now build interactive canvases as part of their work, and you can share a finished canvas with your team by link. Why it matters for your work: Results like a summary, chart, or report come back as something easy to show teammates, not just code. Try it (about 2 minutes): Ask a cloud agent to make a canvas summarizing a repo's open TODOs, then copy its link and send it to a teammate. No access? Here's what you'd see: Interactive canvases built by cloud agents appear on screen and can be shared with others using a link.
  • Control agents on your computer from iPhone — What's different: The Cursor iPhone app can now show and reply to agents running on your own computer after you approve pairing in the desktop app (off by default for Enterprise until an admin turns it on). Why it matters for your work: You can unblock a local agent from your phone instead of walking back to your desk. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open the iPhone app, approve the pairing request in Cursor on your computer, and reply to a running agent from your phone. Needs: the Cursor iPhone app. No access? Here's what you'd see: The Cursor desktop app displays a pairing request, and the iPhone app shows and replies to agents running on the computer.
  • Projects: a coordinator agent for big work — What's different: Projects (beta) in the left-hand nav lets a coordinator agent plan larger work, hand pieces to other agents in the cloud, and bring finished work back for your review, even with your laptop closed. Why it matters for your work: Bigger efforts like a feature or migration can run as one tracked effort instead of many separate chats. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open Projects from the left-hand nav, describe a small feature, and read the plan the coordinator writes before it starts. No access? Here's what you'd see: A Projects panel opens showing the coordinator agent's step-by-step plan.
  • Start a cloud agent without a code repo — What's different: Cloud agents no longer need GitHub connected: choose to start from scratch, see a live preview, then save the work to a new Cursor-hosted repo or publish it with Vercel. Why it matters for your work: Non-engineers can prototype a small site or tool first and worry about where to store it later. Try it (about 2 minutes): In the repo picker for a cloud agent, choose the start-from-scratch option, ask for a one-page site, and open the live preview. No access? Here's what you'd see: The cloud agent repo picker displays a start-from-scratch option, and a live preview can be opened.
  • Also new — - Gmail, Drive, and Calendar plugins: New Google Workspace plugins let agents search Gmail, find files in Drive, and manage Calendar events. - Cursor now part of The X Subscription bundle: Cursor is now offered in The X Subscription bundle alongside Grok, Grok Bot, and X Premium. - Grok Bot included with Cursor plans: Cursor plans now include access to Grok Bot, xAI's always-on AI teammate app.
  • Try one on your own work — Pick the one main change from this course that is most useful to your job. Try it in your own Cursor on a real task, then paste or describe what you got. The coach gives short, specific feedback. No access to the app or plan it needs? Describe how you would use it on a real task this week. That counts too. There is no score and no pass or fail: finishing this completes the course.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

The material is pitched at intermediate level, and takes roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: AI Code Editors track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

  • Cursor for Everyone: Core — The working level for non-technical builders: keeping your Cursor-built tools alive and useful. Learners improve and fix their own tools, connect them safely to real files and data, and reuse what works. They finish knowing their limits - and exactly when to hand something to an engineer.
  • What's New in Cursor for Developers — A short refresher on the latest Cursor for Developers updates
  • Cursor for Developers: Core — Engineers learn to build and change code with Cursor's Agent: multi-file agentic edits, Project Rules and AGENTS.md, precise @-mention context, and Plan and Debug modes. They also set safe run modes and MCP approvals, and review every change with diffs, checkpoints and Agent Review, so they ship faster without losing control of quality.
  • Cursor for Developers: Essentials — Testing Playbook — A focused playbook for testing with Cursor. Learners use Agent in Ask mode to find the untested rules in a small Python billing module and write unit and edge-case tests, sort out a failing test and a flaky one, and prove a test really guards the behaviour by checking whether it would catch a bug. They leave with a repeatable test-writing routine and the habit of taking expected values from the spec, not from the code. About 45 minutes including the final.
  • Cursor for Developers: Advanced — This course takes Cursor users from productive to expert in large codebases: nested AGENTS.md and scoped rules, skills, hooks as guardrails, parallel agents in worktrees, the agent browser, large refactors and agentic debugging. Learners finish able to manage long sessions, set team conventions with Team Rules and plugins, and keep agents secure.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code what-s-new-in-cursor-e4fecbfe.