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title: "Agent Runners now use smarter scoping for new projects"
description: "Agent Runners now scope new projects more intelligently, so you get a working preview instead of a run that stops before finishing."
source: "https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-09-04-agent-run-statuses-project-scoping/"
last_updated: "2026-09-05T01:23:16.000Z"
---
Agent Runners can now scope ambitious prompts for new projects to create a partial working project and provide next steps within the available credit budget.

Previously, a brand new project could use up its credit budget before the agent finished for ambitious prompts, leaving the run marked **Cancelled** partway through.

Now, your agent scopes the work more intelligently. It builds out part of the project and shares a plan for next steps, so you can preview a working version within your new project credit budget instead of the run stalling out.

Learn more in [Make changes with Agent Runners](https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/agent-runners/make-changes-with-agent-runners/).