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Cursor Projects is now multiplayer: your agents can coordinate with your teammates' agents

SummaryCursor rebuilt Projects so a whole team and all of its agents share one workspace, with a shared task board and shared context. It is rolling out in beta to all users. Not tested by MODEL.

· MODEL Editors · 2 min read

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MODEL news card on a cream background. Small red kicker: TOOL UPDATE. Large red text: BETA. Black headline: Cursor Projects is now multiplayer. Bottom left: MODEL. Bottom right: Source: Cursor (cursor.com/blog).
Cursor Projects is rolling out in beta as a shared workspace for teams and their agents. Not tested by MODEL. Illustration by MODEL. Original. Image source.

What launched. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, @cursor_ai announced (opens in a new tab) that "your agents can now coordinate with your teammates' agents." Per Cursor's blog post (opens in a new tab), Projects, which Cursor introduced in September as a way for one engineer to direct a fleet of agents through a single coordinator, has been rebuilt for multiplayer. You can invite teammates into a Project and plan, build and ship together alongside everyone's agents.

How it works. Each teammate still gets their own one-to-one chat with their coordinator and worker agents, each with its own local context. On top of that, a Project has a shared context layer that holds requirements docs, diagrams, tech specs, mockups and more. Cursor says a decision made in one chat is available to every agent in the Project, and a new teammate who joins gets that context already set up. A shared task board shows who is doing what, what each person's agents are working on, and the PR behind each task.

Agents talking to agents. Teammates' agents can communicate with each other to plan around and unblock one another. Cursor's examples: an engineer adding reviews to a product page while a designer redesigns it, where the coordinators spot the overlap and sync up; or a feature that reads from a database while a teammate changes the schema, where the agents agree on the order of work up front to avoid a merge conflict.

Where Cursor uses it. Cursor says several of its own teams run on-call rotations in a shared Project, and that when an engineer took over a rotation, their coordinator already knew what work was in flight and what needed handing off. In-progress work can be handed directly to the new person's agent.

Availability. Rolling out in beta to all users in Cursor starting Nov. 10. To start, create a Project from the left-hand nav and invite teammates. Cursor's post does not list pricing or usage limits for multiplayer Projects.

Who it's for. Teams that already run several Cursor agents at once and keep re-explaining the same specs and decisions to each person's agents.

The caveats.

  • It is a beta, and the rollout starts today, so you may not see it right away.
  • Cursor calls Projects "the first workspace where software teams work side by side with all of their agents." That is Cursor's claim; MODEL has not checked it.
  • The on-call and coordination examples are Cursor's own. Shared context also means shared mistakes: a wrong decision in one chat can reach every agent in the Project.

Disclosure: Not tested by MODEL. Not sponsored. No affiliate links.

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