Build Apps in Cursor: Native Live App Provisioning

Cursor now lets developers build live applications directly inside the editor and deploy them to unique web addresses on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled. Rather than serving solely as a code generation assistant, the IDE provisions infrastructure including Postgres databases, handles authentication behind Cursor SSO, and deploys applications without requiring external hosting consoles.12

How Cursor automates full-stack provisioning

The platform scaffolds the web app and configures authentication from plain descriptions. When generating a project, Cursor spins up a Postgres database if the architecture requires persistent storage. Developers pick a unique domain name during publication to receive a live URL. Deployment supports repositories hosted on GitHub and Cursor Origin, with GitLab support in development.1

Security scanning and administrative oversight

Before any application goes live, Cursor executes deterministic and agentic security checks to catch exposed credentials or secrets stored in code files. These automated pre-flight scans aim to block common configuration mistakes before public exposure. Team administrators receive centralized visibility over every application and secret published across the team. Admins can enforce custom rules within the security review, approve builds blocked by scans, or unpublish active apps at any time.1

Access controls differ by tier. Individual accounts can choose to make live links publicly accessible, while team accounts automatically place published applications behind Cursor sign-in to restrict traffic to specific colleagues, groups, or whole organizations.13

What teams build with it

Cursor's native build workflows serve several operational needs across software teams:4

• Internal ops tools and collateral: Organizations use live deployments to launch administrative utilities, onboarding materials, or customer presentations.
• Interactive analytics dashboards: Engineers pair Cursor with data warehouses like Snowflake and UI libraries like shadcn to build live data monitors featuring real-time charts.
• Internal developer portals: Teams publish internal hubs and service documentation directly from their repositories.45

Outside of web utilities, developers also apply Cursor's multi-file editing features to cross-platform mobile setups. In one reported deployment, a developer published four mobile apps to the App Store and three to Google Play within three months using React Native in Cursor, avoiding native Swift or Kotlin code.67