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Cursor calls itself your coding agent for building ambitious software. You hand tasks to its agents and make the decisions, using its desktop app or its command-line tool.

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What Cursor does

  • Turns ideas into code by letting you hand tasks to agents while you focus on decisions.
  • Runs as a desktop app, Cursor Desktop, and as a command-line tool, Cursor CLI.
  • Can be customised with rules, skills, subagents, hooks, plugins and MCP, all of which its documentation lists under Customize.
  • Documents cloud agents, automations and Bugbot alongside the desktop agent.
  • Has documentation on planning, prompting, debugging and reviewing what an agent does.

What people use it for

  • Hand off a coding task

    Describe the change, let an agent work on it, and review the result, which is the way Cursor’s own page frames it.

  • Review an agent’s work

    Cursor’s documentation lists an Agent Review page under Agent, so reviewing what an agent did is part of the workflow.

  • Teach it your project

    Cursor documents rules, skills and MCP as the ways to customise what its agent does for your project.

Who it suits

  • Developers comfortable reviewing changes who want agents to do the first pass.
  • People who like working from the terminal as well as an editor, since it offers both.

Plans and access

Cursor publishes its plans on a pricing page and covers models and pricing in its documentation. Check those for what each plan includes before you rely on it.

How to start

  1. 1Read the welcome and quickstart pages, then download Cursor for your system. Open
  2. 2Open a project you know and give the agent one small, well-defined task.
  3. 3Read every change it proposes before you accept it.
  4. 4Add a rule or two so it follows your project’s conventions next time.

Watch and learn

Videos from Cursor’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the Cursor channel.

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Common questions about Cursor

What is Cursor?
Cursor describes itself as a coding agent for building ambitious software, where you hand tasks to agents and make the decisions yourself.
Does Cursor have a command-line version?
Yes. Cursor’s page shows Cursor Desktop and Cursor CLI as its two interfaces.
How do I make Cursor follow my project’s conventions?
Cursor’s documentation lists rules, skills, subagents, hooks, plugins and MCP under Customize, which are how you shape what its agent does.
Is Cursor free?
Cursor publishes its plans on a pricing page and in its documentation under Models & Pricing. Check there for what is free and what is paid.

Where this comes from

Written from the maker’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Plans, limits and features change, so the page you land on is the source.

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