Cursor Projects: one coordinator directs thousands of cloud subagents
It runs in the cloud, watches your Slack and PRs, and ships while you sleep — heavy users merge 6x more. Plus Nex-N2.5 open agents and Vercel's Agents API.
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The coordinator plans; subagents write the code
Cursor's new Projects mode adds a coordinator agent that plans a feature, migration, or whole app and spins up as many parallel subagents as the work needs — it never writes code itself, just hands finished work back for you to review. It's in beta and rolling out to all users now.
It keeps shipping after you close the laptop
Each Project runs on its own machine in the cloud with a shared context set that syncs across every agent and grows over time. You can subscribe the coordinator to a Slack channel, a schedule, or all your PRs, so it acts on signals without waiting for a prompt.
6x more merged PRs — but it can't push to main
Cursor says heavy Projects users merge 6x more PRs and new users about 30% more, with one internal design-system project on track for 20-100 PRs a day. The deliberate guardrail: agents are blocked from pushing to main, keeping you the final integrator.
Elsewhere: Nex-N2.5 open-weights agents you can self-host
Nex-AGI's Apache-2.0 N2.5 family puts computer-use and browser agents in the open. Mini (35B, runs on 2×H100) posts a vendor-reported 71.2 on OSWorld and 83.4 on BrowseComp, with a 1.6T-param Max for heavy reasoning — a self-hostable alternative to closed coordinator stacks.
Elsewhere: Vercel ships the plumbing for cloud agents
Vercel added one-click deploy for OpenAI's Agents API on Next.js, routed GitHub Copilot through its AI SDK harness layer, and doubled Sandbox storage to 64GB per instance — the glue for standing up your own persistent agents.