Cursor’s Projects keep a coordinator agent working in the cloud after the laptop closes, at a price the launch page does not give

Cursor launched Projects in beta on 10 September, rolling out to all users. It is an agent sold on the promise that nobody needs to watch it, and Cursor has not said what one costs.

In Cursor’s words, a coordinator agent “doesn’t write code itself; it plans the work, delegates it to agents that implement it,” and it runs “on its own computer in the cloud, so closing your laptop doesn’t stop it.” Cursor says it “delegates tasks to thousands of subagents” and states no cap. What it knows lives in a set of files that sync across every cloud and local machine its agents use, so a lesson such as how to test a service survives from one run to the next. Subscriptions let the coordinator watch a Slack channel, run on a schedule or follow every pull request without being prompted.

The verdict: try it on a bounded migration, and do not give a Project a subscription until Cursor prices the work it does unprompted.