Cursor launches Projects, a delegating coordinator agent
Cursor has launched Projects in beta, a mode where a coordinator agent plans and delegates work to subagents on a persistent cloud machine, retaining context across months of a codebase.
Cursor said Projects, available in beta and rolling out to all users starting today, is built for larger bodies of work such as a feature, a migration, or a full app, and is accessed from the left-hand nav.
The structural change is a coordinator agent that does not write code itself. It plans work, delegates implementation to agents it creates and manages, runs as many in parallel as the work requires, and returns finished work for review. Cursor says a project can delegate to "thousands of subagents."
Each Project runs on its own cloud computer, so closing a laptop does not stop it; when something needs testing on the user's machine, the coordinator spins up a local agent to run it there. Projects also maintain a set of files that sync across every cloud and local machine their agents use. Agents write research, artifacts, and what they learn about the codebase and the user's preferences into that shared context — Cursor's example is one agent working out how to test a service and every later agent reusing those instructions.
Coordinators can also act without a prompt: Cursor says users can tell one to watch a Slack channel, run on a schedule, or follow all their PRs. Connecting Slack to a bug-report channel, the company says, makes the coordinator delegate work each time a bug arrives.
The announcement is a first-party changelog post. Cursor did not publish pricing, usage limits, benchmark results, or any evaluation of how reliably coordinators complete delegated work.