Cursor is an excellent AI editor for one person. Coshell is a different thing: the shared live session your whole team and one coding agent work in together.
Cursor is one of the best AI editors there is, and we are not trying to beat it.Coshell is not an editor. It is the shared session the whole team works in, with the agent, at the same time.
Cursor makes one person faster in their own copy. Coshell puts the whole team in one live session, so there are no copies to reconcile after.
Two honest columns. Cursor is the editor on your machine. Coshell is the shared session in the cloud.
| Cursoreditor · on your machine | Coshellhosted · multiplayer | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI code editor on your machine | A shared cloud session your team and the agent work in |
| Single-player or shared | Single-player, one copy per person | Shared, one live session for the whole team |
| Real-time multiplayer | No, each person edits their own copy | Several people prompt one agent in one session |
| Overlap detection | You merge changes in git afterward | An overlap layer catches overlapping edits and steers the agents |
| Load the codebase once | Each person's editor indexes its own copy | The shared session loads context once, for everyone |
| Per-session privacy | Local to your machine | Per session: private, named teammates, or whole drive |
| Models | Built-in models, plus your own keys | 70+ models on your own keys |
| Where you work from | The desktop app | Any browser, or your terminal over the CLI |
| Git | Commits from your local checkout | Pushes to your real git repos from the drive |
| Best for | One developer moving fast in their own editor | A team working with one agent in the same live session |
Cursor is an editor you install. Coshell is a shared session you join. The two are not mutually exclusive: use Cursor locally and join the team's Coshell session for the shared work.
Coshell is a fork of OpenCode, the open-source agent engine. We did not start from zero; we built the shared team session on top.
Not exactly. Cursor is an AI editor that runs on your machine for one person. Coshell is a shared cloud session your whole team joins to work with one agent at the same time. Many teams use both: Cursor for solo editing, Coshell when the work is shared. If you searched Cursor vs coshell expecting two editors, that is the key difference: one is an editor, the other is a shared session.
No. In Cursor, each person edits their own copy of the code on their own machine. Coshell puts several people in one live session, prompting one agent and watching its work land on the same running environment.
Cursor is built around one developer per editor. A team can each run Cursor and merge their work in git afterward, but they are not in the same session. Coshell is built for the shared case: one session, one agent, the whole team in it.
No. Two things prevent it. Unlike each person editing their own checkout, everyone shares one running copy, so there is no divergent branch to lose in a later merge. And when two agents reach for the same lines of the same file, the overlap layer catches it and steers the second one before it overwrites the first.
Yes. Coshell runs on 70+ models with your own keys, and a drive pushes to your real git repositories as a normal git operation. Self-host it on your own machine and your code never leaves it, free; the Enterprise tieradds org-wide on-prem and SSO.
Keep Cursor for solo work. When the work is shared, open a drive and put the whole team in one live session with the agent.