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Cursor Launches Projects: One Agent Coordinating Many Others
With Projects, a Cursor coordinator agent splits a big job across subagents that keep running in the cloud even with your laptop closed. How it works.
Key points
- Projects (10 September, in beta) is for large jobs: a feature, a migration or a whole app.
- A coordinator agent plans and delegates the work to subagents without writing code itself.
- Each project runs on its own cloud computer, so it keeps going when you close your laptop.
- Cursor has been part of SpaceX since August and offers Grok 4.7 alongside other companies' models.
Cursor, the most widely used AI code editor, launched Projects on 10 September, in beta for all users. The idea is to go from asking an agent for things to handing it a large job, such as a new feature, a migration or a complete app, and letting it organise itself.
How it works
At the heart of Projects is a coordinator agent. It does not write code: it plans, delegates work to subagents and stays free to answer you while they code. It is the orchestrator-workers pattern from our agent design patterns, turned into a product. Cursor says the coordinator can supervise thousands of subagents.
Three pieces make it work:
- Its own cloud computer. Each project runs on a remote machine, so closing your laptop does not stop it and many subagents fit in parallel.
- Shared context. Files stay in sync across machines, and the agents learn how your codebase works and how you like to work.
- Subscriptions. The coordinator can watch a Slack channel, run scheduled tasks or follow pull requests and act without being asked.
In Cursor’s internal testing, new users merged 30% more pull requests, and those who mainly used Projects merged six times as many. These are the company’s own figures.
Cursor is now part of SpaceX
Context matters: on 14 August SpaceX completed its acquisition of Cursor, after a partnership with SpaceX’s AI division, which develops Grok. Since then Cursor includes the Grok models, most recently Grok 4.7, released on 21 September, while still offering models from other companies. It has also improved token use on long agent runs (23 September).
What changes for you
- If you already use Cursor, Projects makes sense for multi-day jobs. For small changes, the regular agent is still more direct.
- Review what you merge. More pull requests does not mean better code: many agents working in parallel makes reviewing and testing even more important.
- Watch your usage. Hundreds of cloud subagents burn a lot of tokens. Check how your plan bills before starting a large project.
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