Pattern: The Single-Composer Editor Is Being Replaced by Parallel Agent Orchestration Surfaces

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Within a week the top tools all retired their single-threaded interaction model: Cursor swapped Composer for an Agents view running up to 8 parallel background tasks, and Devin Desktop killed Cascade (July 1) for an Agent Command Center coordinating cloud + local agents. The assumed unit of work is shifting from 'one prompt, one edit' to 'fan out N agents across the repo, review results as they land.' Builders should design their repos (clear module boundaries, fast tests, worktree isolation) for concurrent agent access, not a single serial editor.