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Cursor 2 review: is the composer mode enough?
Cursor 2 leans into the agent experience. We spent two weeks with it on real work.
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Cursor 2's headline feature is a redesigned composer that treats agent work as a first-class panel. It's the biggest UX shift since Cursor launched, and it forced us to change how we drive it.
What's new
- Composer runs as a persistent side panel instead of a modal.
- Task queue lets you stack multiple agent runs and review them in order.
- New checkpoint/rollback UI that finally makes agent runs safe to trust.
Where it wins
The rollback flow alone is worth the upgrade. Being able to try an agent run, hate it, and revert cleanly means we let it attempt riskier changes.
Where it still trails
On >10-file changes, Claude Code still plans better. Cursor 2 is faster for a single-file refactor but loses coherence at scale.
Verdict
Best in-editor experience of any tool right now. If you want your agent to live inside your editor rather than the terminal, this is the one.
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