New in Cursor! · Full changelog · Main announcement Subagents just got a big upgrade. Previously, all subagents ran synchronously (the parent agent had to wait for each one to finish before moving on). Now subagents can run asynchronously, so the parent keeps working while subagents handle tasks i…

I must have missed something, I’m using Cursor 2.5.17 and I still can’t get a subagent to run in the background, or have the coordinator/subagent pattern working. Do you have any tips to get this going?

I made this to help get started: [image] GitHub - tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor: Like “oh-my-opencode”, but for Cursor IDE.... Like “oh-my-opencode”, but for Cursor IDE. Multi-agent orchestration, natively, using nothing but a few config files. I find it mu…

is this update related to the is_background flag in subagent definition or is this a separate thing?

Hi! How do enable a subagent to run asynchronously and to spawn new subagents? Updated cursor but this does not work out of the box

It would be really handy if we could use subagents with composer 1.5, it’s my go to model and it can’t even spawn subagents, only models charged on API can, I’d rather pay API costs on composer 1.5 and have access to the features I’m paying for.

I made this to help get started: [image] GitHub - tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor: Like “oh-my-opencode”, but for Cursor IDE.... Like “oh-my-opencode”, but for Cursor IDE. Multi-agent orchestration, natively, using nothing but a few config files. I find it mu…

is it supposed to just work if you tell the agent to parallelize, or do you need to structure the prompt a specific way? the docs don’t really explain the handoff between parent and child

I find it much more repeatable to tag every agent in the starting prompt and say “Orchestrate among these subagents to complete the plan/task/etc.”

The subagents make Composer 1.5 blazingly fast when grepping, reading etc. Its rare that I do more than 1 chat at once since its launch. Do I know what they do under the hood, no, do I love the speed yes

[image] Colin: Now subagents can run asynchronously, so the parent keeps working while subagents handle tasks in the background. This is: Now subagents can run asynchronously, so the parent keeps working while subagents handle tasks in the background. Additionally, subagents can now spawn…

Cursor 2.5: Async Subagents

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Colin (Colin) March 2, 2026, 11:14am 21

This will be fixed in 2.6, coming very soon.

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Cursor 2.5: Async Subagents

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