Cursor Projects is a cloud workspace for long-running development. A coordinator agent receives a goal such as a feature, migration, or application and delegates implementation to other agents rather than writing code itself. It preserves research, codebase knowledge, and testing instructions as shared context. A project runs on its own cloud computer, so closing a laptop does not stop it; when local testing is needed, the coordinator can start an agent on the developer’s machine. Read Cursor’s Projects announcement.

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How Projects organizes ongoing work

A Project accumulates research, plans, artifacts, and team conventions. Later agents can reuse that context instead of being onboarded from scratch. The coordinator breaks a larger goal into parallel implementation, review, and repair tasks. Projects can also subscribe to Slack, pull requests, or scheduled triggers and continue when a new signal arrives. Cursor published productivity results from its own teams; those are internal examples, not a forecast for other repositories.

A practical way to use it

  1. Create a Project for a bounded effort such as a framework migration or cross-module feature. State the goal, protected areas, and acceptance criteria.
  2. Ask agents to investigate the repository and document its architecture, build commands, and test procedures. Review these shared notes for accuracy.
  3. Break implementation into small reviewable tasks. Name which work can run in parallel and which changes depend on earlier steps.
  4. Inspect agent commits through pull requests and CI. Start a local agent only when real devices or local services are required.

Govern persistent cloud work

Cloud work does not stop when a laptop closes. Subscriptions can trigger more work from Slack messages, pull requests, or a schedule. Set active hours, allowed triggers, concurrency limits, and spending boundaries. Add human checkpoints to tasks that may repeatedly change code. Cursor did not promise unlimited operation or publish one universal additional fee; check the current plan and usage terms.