Cursor Projects: coordinator agents for features, migrations, and gardening

On September 10, 2026, Alexi Robbins and Fredrika Lindh introduced Cursor Projects on the product blog, rolling out in beta. Projects take on larger bodies of work such as a feature, a migration, or a full app: they keep context over months, delegate to thousands of subagents, and can run recurring work without being prompted. You chat with a Projects coordinator that directs other agents rather than writing code itself. Runs are cloud by default on their own computer so closing a laptop does not stop the work, agents share context files, and subscriptions cover Slack, a schedule, and pull requests or CI.

Cursor reports that new users merge 30% more pull requests, and that users who primarily use Projects merge six times as many — those figures are Cursor's own reporting. The post describes three patterns: feature work, migrations that span hundreds of pull requests, and ongoing gardening such as a design-system Project watching pull requests.

Optional further reading for CS 4550 / CS 5610 — not required for labs or grades. If you already use Cursor on labs, do not treat agent output as a substitute for understanding Next.js and React yourself.

Read original: Introducing Projects — Cursor

Related in the book: Chapter 1