Cursor Shared Canvases: Publish an Agent Canvas and Share It With Your Team via URL
Cursor added shared canvases -- you can now share a canvas from Cursor with your team by generating a link to a live snapshot that teammates open in the browser. Recipients view it read-only in the Cursor Dashboard, so you distribute a working dashboard or report instead of a full chat thread. Shared canvases are available on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.
Cursor added shared canvases, announced by cursor_ai on June 4, 2026. The feature lets you share a canvas from Cursor with your team: per the Cursor changelog, you generate a link to a live snapshot of a canvas for teammates to open in the browser. Recipients view it read-only in the Cursor Dashboard, so you hand off a working dashboard or report instead of a full chat thread.
If you are new to canvases, start with our explainer on when to ask the agent for a UI instead of text. For where canvases fit Cursor's broader agent surface, see Cursor 3.5 automations and the Agents Window.
Key Takeaways
- What shipped: the ability to share a canvas from Cursor with your team via a link.
- The link is a live snapshot of the canvas that teammates open in the browser.
- Recipients view it read-only in the Cursor Dashboard.
- You share the artifact, not the thread. Instead of distributing a full chat conversation, you distribute the canvas itself.
- Availability: shared canvases are available on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.
- Discovery source: the cursor_ai announcement on June 4, 2026; feature claims verified against the Cursor changelog shared-canvases page.
What Shared Canvases Add
A canvas in Cursor is an agent-generated interactive artifact -- a report, dashboard, or custom interface rendered as a durable object rather than more text. Shared canvases add the missing distribution step. Per the Cursor changelog, you can share a canvas with your team by generating a link to a live snapshot of a canvas for teammates to open in the browser.
The key framing from Cursor: instead of distributing full chat threads, you distribute browser-accessible canvas links. A teammate gets the working artifact -- the dashboard or report the agent built -- without needing to scroll the conversation that produced it.
How Sharing Works
The flow is built around a browser link and the Cursor Dashboard:
- You generate a link to a live snapshot of the canvas.
- A teammate opens the link in the browser.
- They view the canvas in the Cursor Dashboard with read-only permissions.
Because recipients are read-only, sharing is a presentation and review surface, not a collaborative-edit surface. The canvas is a snapshot of the agent's output that others can open and read without touching the underlying thread or project.
When to Use a Shared Canvas
A shared canvas is the right surface when the valuable thing is the artifact, not the conversation:
- Status dashboards. The agent assembled a triage or metrics dashboard and you want the team to glance at it without re-running the prompt.
- Reports for review. You generated a report or analysis and a stakeholder needs to read the result, not the chat that produced it.
- Internal mini-tools. A custom interface the agent built that teammates should be able to open and use read-only.
If the goal is to hand off the reasoning or let someone continue the work, the shared canvas is not that -- it is a read-only live snapshot for consumption.
Caveats and Open Questions
- Claims sourced to official material. The announcement date and discovery come from the cursor_ai post; the feature mechanics (live-snapshot link, browser viewing, Cursor Dashboard, read-only, Pro/Teams/Enterprise availability) come from the Cursor changelog shared-canvases page. We have not asserted publishing UI specifics, link-expiry or access-control details, or version-number specifics beyond what those sources state.
- Read-only by design. Shared canvases are for viewing, not collaborative editing, per the changelog.
- Plan-gated. Availability is Pro, Teams, and Enterprise. Confirm the current pricing page for a contractual answer.
FAQ
See the structured FAQ in the schema header for question-level details: what shared canvases are, how teammates view them, plan availability, and how this differs from a regular canvas.
Sources
- cursor_ai announcement (X): https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2062611883249783083 (June 4, 2026)
- Cursor changelog -- shared canvases: https://cursor.com/changelog/shared-canvases
- Cursor changelog index: https://cursor.com/changelog
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are Cursor shared canvases?
Shared canvases let you share a canvas from Cursor with your team. Per Cursor's changelog, you generate a link to a live snapshot of a canvas for teammates to open in the browser. Instead of distributing a full chat thread, you distribute a browser-accessible link to the canvas itself.
How do teammates view a shared canvas?
Teammates open the shared link in the browser and view the canvas in the Cursor Dashboard with read-only permissions. The shared canvas is a live snapshot, so it presents the agent-generated report, dashboard, or interface rather than the conversation that produced it.
Which plans support shared canvases?
Per Cursor's changelog, shared canvases are available on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans. Cursor has not promised this stays the case forever, so check the current pricing page if you need a contractual answer for procurement.
How is this different from a regular Cursor canvas?
A canvas is an agent-generated interactive artifact -- a report, dashboard, or custom interface. Shared canvases add distribution: a link to a live snapshot that teammates open in the browser, read-only, via the Cursor Dashboard. The base canvas feature is about generating the UI; sharing is about getting it in front of others.