Visual System Design
Cursor 3.6 introduces the Interactive Canvas, an infinite whiteboard directly integrated with your codebase.
How It Works
Instead of chatting, you can drag and drop your components, database schemas, and API routes onto the Canvas. The AI generates architecture diagrams, sequence flows, and code directly on the board.
- Bi-directional Editing: Editing the code updates the diagram. Editing the diagram (e.g., drawing an arrow from a new button to a database table) automatically writes the necessary connection code.
- Architecture Reviews: You can ask the AI to "Review this architecture for security flaws," and it will highlight vulnerable nodes on the canvas.
Shared Canvases
Teams can now share interactive canvases via a link as live, read-only snapshots. Share a canvas URL with your team to give them a real-time view of your architecture diagram, task board, or data dashboard — no Cursor install required. Viewers see a frozen snapshot that updates when the author publishes changes.
💡 Key Insight: The Interactive Canvas is the fastest way to build complex microservices, because it allows you to reason spatially while the AI handles the boilerplate. Shared Canvases extend this power to entire teams for collaborative architecture reviews.