Cursor Launches Projects and Self-Hosted Cloud Agents

Cursor ships Projects — persistent project-scoped workspaces for agents, conversations, and context — plus the ability to run cloud agents on machines you manage.

Thursday September 10, 2026 Source: Cursor
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Cursor introduced Projects, persistent project-scoped workspaces that organize agents, conversations, and context, alongside self-hosted machines that let enterprises run Cursor's cloud agents on infrastructure they manage. The launches continue Cursor's rapid post-SpaceX-acquisition cadence.

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Cursor has shipped Projects, its latest major feature for the agentic coding era — alongside the ability to run cloud agents on self-managed machines.

Organizing Agent Work

As coding agents handle longer tasks across bigger codebases, the unit of work has shifted from a chat session to a project. Projects gives that shift a home: persistent, project-scoped workspaces where agents, conversations, and context stay organized across sessions.

Self-hosted machines (shipped a week earlier) address the enterprise requirement that code never leave owned infrastructure: cloud agents can now execute on machines the customer manages, rather than Cursor’s.

A Run Rate Unlike Any Dev Tool

The launches cap a staggering year: Cursor’s recurring revenue doubled to $2 billion in three months (per Bloomberg), the company was acquired by SpaceX in August, and Grok 4.6 debuted through the platform — with an AIUC-1 certification for agent security and reliability in between.

Read the announcements at cursor.com/blog/projects and cursor.com/blog/self-hosted-machines.


Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cursor Projects?

Projects is a Cursor feature, introduced September 10, 2026, that organizes cloud agents, conversations, and context into persistent project-scoped workspaces.

What are self-hosted machines in Cursor?

Announced September 2, 2026, self-hosted machines let enterprises run Cursor's cloud agents on machines they manage themselves, keeping code and execution inside their own infrastructure.

Who owns Cursor?

Cursor's maker Anysphere was acquired by SpaceX, announced August 14, 2026. The tool's recurring revenue had doubled in three months to $2 billion before the acquisition.

This article is based on the official announcement from Cursor . Read the original for full technical details.

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