--- title: Improvements to Cursor Automations · Cursor | daily.dev description: Cursor version 3.8 brings several enhancements to its Automations feature. A new /automate skill lets users create automations directly from a local agent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/improvements-to-cursor-automations-cursor-qwcaxjy63 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Improvements to Cursor Automations · Cursor | daily.dev og:description: Cursor version 3.8 brings several enhancements to its Automations feature. A new /automate skill lets users create automations directly from a local agent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/improvements-to-cursor-automations-cursor-qwcaxjy63 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qwCAxjY63.png og:image:alt: Improvements to Cursor Automations · Cursor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Improvements to Cursor Automations · Cursor **[Cursor](https://daily.dev/sources/cursor)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cursor version 3.8 brings several enhancements to its Automations feature. A new /automate skill lets users create automations directly from a local agent session using plain language. Slack integration gains an emoji-based trigger to kick off automations from any message. Five new GitHub triggers are added, covering issue comments, PR review comments, PR review submissions, review thread updates, and GitHub Actions workflow completions. Cloud agents can now use a computer use tool to produce demos or artifacts. Additional improvements include saving automations in incomplete states, automatic PR opening, and memory file management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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