Cursor now has its agent file a plan in Slack before starting work, and operate across multiple repositories.

From the Jul 18, 2026 daily brief

The coding tool's July 17 update: when you invoke it in Slack, it first replies with a work plan — giving you the chance to redirect early — before it starts; it supports tasks spanning multiple repositories in one go, and proactively asks before touching another repo mid-task (Cursor Changelog, Jul 17). The directional signal: the coding agent's working surface is migrating from the engineer's editor to the team's chat room — wherever assignment, tracking, and acceptance happen is where the agents go. This will be a crowded race, but we have no comparative data on other players' equivalent features, so we note the direction only and name no specific competitor.

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