Cursor (Agent mode) · Anysphere
VS Code-fork AI IDE whose Agent mode plus in-house Composer models, Background/Cloud Agents (isolated cloud VMs that report back as PRs), hooks, skills, and an agent SDK make it the most fully-built-out commercial agentic IDE; Composer 2 scored 61.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Composer 2.5 79.8% on SWE-bench Multilingual (SWE-bench Verified not reported).
Identity
| Homepage | https://cursor.com/ |
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| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | ide · cli · web-app · cloud-service |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ✓ yes |
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| Native models | Composer 2 · Composer 2.5 · Claude (Anthropic) · GPT (OpenAI) · Gemini (Google) |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
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| Agent Skills support | ✓ yes |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | optional |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local → background-cloud |
| Subagents | ? unknown |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | codebase-indexing · compaction · persistent-memory |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
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| GitHub integration | ✓ yes |
| Terminal-Bench | 61.7% |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise