Cursor

Cursor is an AI coding agent and code editor that helps developers plan, write, debug, and review software across desktop, terminal, web, and chat surfaces.

Cursor Desktop interface showing agent task reviews, code edits, and a web preview alongside an overlapping Cursor CLI terminal window.

About Cursor

Cursor is an AI-powered software development environment created by Anysphere. It operates as a desktop editor, command-line interface, cloud agent service, and web tool. The platform integrates autonomous coding agents capable of planning features, searching large codebases with Instant Grep, editing files across repositories, executing terminal commands, and reviewing pull requests. Cursor supports multiple underlying AI models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI, and Cursor's custom Composer models, allowing users to switch models per task and configure team-specific rules, skills, and Model Context Protocol connections.

What you can do

  • Multi-surface coding agents across desktop, terminal, web, mobile, and third-party integrations.

  • Autonomous parallel cloud agents that build, test, and demo software end to end.

  • Instant Grep codebase search capable of searching millions of files in milliseconds.

  • Sandboxed terminal command execution directly inside the editor for builds, tests, and installations.

  • Full-lifecycle development workflow covering interactive planning, visual UI editing, and execution-based debugging.

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