Cursor CLI · Anysphere (Cursor)
Cursor's terminal/headless version of its IDE agent (shipped January 2026), distinguished by cloud handoff to isolated cloud VMs, sandboxed command execution with granular network/filesystem controls, hooks, async subagents, and shared MCP/rules/skills config with the Cursor editor.
Identity
| Homepage | https://cursor.com/cli |
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| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | cli · ide · cloud-service · ci-step |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ✓ yes |
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| Native models | Composer · GPT-5.x · Claude Opus/Sonnet 4.x · Gemini 3 |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | subscription |
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 | ✓ yes |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | compaction · persistent-memory · codebase-indexing |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
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| GitHub integration | ✓ yes |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise