Overview
- Cursor introduced Cursor 3 on Thursday as a desktop interface built around AI coding agents that still allows a quick switch back to the traditional IDE.
- The workspace handles multi-repo projects with a sidebar that shows every local and cloud agent and lets users run many agents at once.
- A new handoff flow moves an agent session between cloud and local so an agent can generate a feature online and the user can review and edit the code on their machine.
- The move comes as Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex lure developers with subsidized plans that reporters say deliver far more usage than the monthly fee.
- The debut follows questions about trust after reporters found Cursor’s Composer 2 was largely licensed from Moonshot AI’s Kimi 2.5 with limited upfront disclosure.