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How to Connect Cursor to CircleCI: AI-Powered CI/CD Debugging with MCP

Jul 28, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Stop context-switching between your IDE and CI dashboard. This video shows you how to connect Cursor to CircleCI using the CircleCI MCP server so your AI agent can read pipeline failures, validate configs, and trigger builds without leaving your editor. In this demo, we introduce a bug, let CI catch it, and watch the agent diagnose and fix it autonomously through a full green pipeline. No manual log hunting required.
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What is a remote MCP server?

Jul 24, 2026 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
As development shifts toward agentic workflows, an AI agent is only as capable as the systems it can reach. Local MCP servers allow desktop CLI and IDE agents to execute multi-step tasks on your machine. But remote MCP servers (also called hosted MCP servers) extend that reach to cloud-based and background agents, allowing an agent running in a web browser, a CI runner, or a backend service to access external tools over HTTP without needing a developer’s machine running local child processes.
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Guardrails for shipping with AI agents, feat. Luca Rossi of Refactoring.fm

Jul 23, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Code review has always been a time sink. AI just makes the dysfunction undeniable. Luca Rossi, founder of Refactoring.fm and builder of the open source tool Tolaria, has been running one of engineering's most-read newsletters for five years, with over 170,000 subscribers. He's also been doing what a lot of engineering leaders talk about but rarely do: building a real product with AI agents to pressure-test what's actually possible today.
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Upgrade Your AWS Deploy Orb to Get Deploy Markers

Jul 10, 2026 By Mari Federow In CircleCI
Upgrade to the latest version of your AWS deploy orb to get automatic registration of deploy markers. This will give you instant access to deployment timeline, auto-rollback, and version comparison when something breaks — for about five minutes of effort. It will also switch you to OIDC, so there are no long-lived keys to manage. It’s a single version bump. Here’s how.
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