Cursor launches Cursor 3 to manage multiple AI coding agents
Cursor just dropped Cursor 3, its latest AI coding tool designed to make life easier for developers.
With this new platform, you can manage several AI agents in one place, whether they're running on your laptop or in the cloud, so you spend less time on tedious coding and more time seeing the big picture.
The launch comes as Cursor tries to keep up with rivals like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
Cursor faces rivals and licensing controversy
Cursor 3 is all about letting users direct AI agents to handle code across multiple repositories on a project, kind of like being the manager instead of doing all the grunt work yourself.
But it's not all smooth sailing: Claude Code now controls over half the market, and Codex is breaking records in benchmarks.
Plus, Cursor recently caught some heat for releasing Composer 2, which was later discovered to be largely a licensed version of Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi 2.5 model, without disclosing that upfront.