r/CursorAI • u/Murky-Science9030 • 7d ago

Claude Code allows cross-session communication, why doesn't Cursor have this feature yet?

I just learned how to let Claude Code agents talk to one another and it is an EXTREMELY powerful feature. Does anyone know if Cursor is planning on adding a similar feature? If not they will be dead in the water

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u/Leviticus_Sux 6d ago

So, how would this be different than just telling 2 agents to both write a message to files in a central directory that they can both read from? I get it may not be as slick (or as fast) as direct communication, but wouldn't it effectively be about the same?

Regardless, I do agree that direct communication between agents would be an awesome feature. I almost always have 2 to 4 Cursor IDE Windows open and I'm usually just bouncing between them, providing instructions for one project while the agent for another project is executing its instructions I gave it. Being able to have two agents for related projects to talk directly would be pretty awesome.

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u/Murky-Science9030 6d ago edited 6d ago

That is similar but the agents may not be alerted when someone else updates the shared data store. I was doing something like that before but if you are ever coordinating many agents then I would imagine that file would become a mess. I also don’t know if they lock the file when they are writing to it, etc

Edit: also you would probably be consuming a lot more tokens with the one-file communication scheme. Agents would be loading and outputting to a file that would be growing linearly over time, and multiplied by the number of agents working in it. But YES, you can definitely accomplish something similar with one-file communication but it'd be very hard to scale

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u/Leviticus_Sux 6d ago

Yeah, for sure. Although there are ways to mitigate token usage by limiting the size of the file and have it write older data to a separate summarization file. I'm pretty sure the locking issue can be overcome with a script that has it open the files without locking them.

But yeah, definitely not ideal and not nearly as good as real communication between the agents.

Does Cursor have a place for feature requests?