parallel-exploring
Parallel Explore
Use this skill when you need to understand a large or unfamiliar codebase quickly — onboarding onto a new project, investigating how a feature works across layers, or mapping the architecture.
How It Works
Cursor's explore subagent is a fast, read-only agent optimized for searching and reading code. You can launch multiple explore agents in a single message and they run concurrently, each investigating a different area.
Steps
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Identify the areas to explore — break the codebase into logical zones. For a typical full-stack app:
- Frontend: components, pages, routing, state management
- Backend: API routes, database models, middleware, auth
- Infrastructure: CI/CD, Docker, deployment config
- Shared: types, utilities, constants
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Launch parallel explore agents — use the Task tool with
subagent_type: "explore"for each area. Launch them all in one message:
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