orchestrate

Orchestrate

An explicit /orchestrate <goal> fans out a large task across parallel Cursor cloud agents. Workers don't talk to each other; they talk up through structured handoffs. The spawn, wait, and handoff loop lives in scripts/cli.ts. The planner writes plan.json, the script executes it, and the planner reads handoffs to decide what comes next. Long-running agent loops drift; a script with a JSON state file keeps its footing.

Required reading: the cursor-sdk skill (cursor/plugins/cursor-sdk). Spawning, auth, and the error taxonomy live there. Don't reimplement what that skill already documents.

Setup

• CURSOR_API_KEY must be a personal/user key. Create it from Cursor Dashboard > Integrations, then read cursor-sdk Auth before using it.
• SLACK_BOT_TOKEN is optional. When set, pass --slack-channel <id> to kickoff or the first run --root, or set SLACK_CHANNEL_ID. The script stores the channel in plan.slackChannel, posts the kickoff thread there, mirrors task status, and reads Andon reactions. When the token is unset, the script logs once and runs without Slack visibility; correctness does not change.

Core principles

These rules make the tree self-converging without global coordination.

Orchestrate

An explicit /orchestrate <goal> fans out a large task across parallel Cursor cloud agents. Workers don't talk to each other; they talk up through structured handoffs. The spawn, wait, and handoff loop lives in scripts/cli.ts. The planner writes plan.json, the script executes it, and the planner reads handoffs to decide what comes next. Long-running agent loops drift; a script with a JSON state file keeps its footing.

Required reading: the cursor-sdk skill (cursor/plugins/cursor-sdk). Spawning, auth, and the error taxonomy live there. Don't reimplement what that skill already documents.

Setup

• CURSOR_API_KEY must be a personal/user key. Create it from Cursor Dashboard > Integrations, then read cursor-sdk Auth before using it.
• SLACK_BOT_TOKEN is optional. When set, pass --slack-channel <id> to kickoff or the first run --root, or set SLACK_CHANNEL_ID. The script stores the channel in plan.slackChannel, posts the kickoff thread there, mirrors task status, and reads Andon reactions. When the token is unset, the script logs once and runs without Slack visibility; correctness does not change.

Core principles

These rules make the tree self-converging without global coordination.