Harness Lives Inside Cursor Now - Plus Everything Else That Shipped in April

Harness

May 5, 2026

April was a big month at Harness. AI is changing how code gets written — and the rest of the SDLC is catching up. In this update, Dewan Ahmed walks through Harness product releases across three themes: AI in the developer workflow, security and governance for AI assets, and self-service maturity for developers and platform teams.

What's covered (with timestamps):

00:00 Intro

00:23 Harness Cursor Plugin — pipelines and governance from inside Cursor

01:09 AI Discovery: Third-Party MCP servers, AI Assets Tab, Risk Scoring for MCP Tools

02:25 Reachability Test for XAST and DAST scans

02:33 OSS Remediation — auto-PRs that don't break your app

02:56 SLSA provenance for non-container artifacts (Helm, JAR, WAR, binaries)

03:27 IDP Environment Management — now GA

04:13 FME Warehouse Native Experimentation — now GA

04:40 Harness Code: language breakdown, repo tags, multi-author

04:51 Wrap-up

Go deeper:
→ Full April recap on the blog: https://www.harness.io/blog/shipped-in-april-2026
→ Harness Cursor Plugin deep dive: https://www.harness.io/blog/from-pr-to-production-without-leaving-your-cursor-ide
→ Cursor Plugin walkthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch