Cursor ships Projects: a cloud coordinator agent that runs work spanning weeks and repos

On September 10, 2026, Cursor launched Projects, a coordinator-agent capability aimed at workloads spanning weeks and repositories, clearly above the scope of single-session agents such as Composer. Projects introduces a coordinator agent that breaks work down and delegates to multiple subagents running in parallel, sharing context across them so accumulated knowledge about the codebase and user preferences carries from one task to the next. Because execution happens in the cloud, Projects keeps running after the user closes their laptop and can subscribe to Slack channels, follow pull requests, or run on a schedule without being re-prompted. Projects builds on two recent additions: the September 2 launch of self-hosted machines supporting AWS Lambda, Coder, Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, Namespace, Vercel, and E2B as execution environments, which lets organizations keep tool execution and secrets on their own infrastructure; and the August 27 launch of Start From Scratch, which lets a cloud agent begin work without an existing repository. The three moves together point clearly at Cursor's bet on agents that run longer, with less supervision, and more infrastructure control than a single chat session can provide, and Projects quickly became the most-cited Cursor update in developer forums in the two weeks after launch. The same day, Gemini CLI shipped v0.59.0, fixing a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the MCP OAuth metadata-discovery path and tightening fail-closed workspace-trust defaults; Cline shipped v4.1.17, switching default models across 57 providers to Claude Fable 5.1 and adding ten new model sources.