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Cursor
VS Code-fork AI editor from Anysphere, now owned by SpaceX (with xAI). Agent in the editor, a CLI, and cloud agents; plans now bundle a usage pool shared with Grok.
cursor.com/Acquired
'Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX' (cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex, 2026-08-14); still shipping weekly (Projects 2026-09-10, Grok 4.7 2026-09-21). (checked 2026-10-25)
In Coding agents
Where it stands apart
- Where do you primarily use it? its own editor or desktop app (24% of 21 others)
- Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. several vendors' models, only as served by the tool (19% of 21 others)
- Where do the commands it runs execute by default? on your machine inside an OS sandbox or container (5% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (71% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? company with a paid product, tier, or ads (71% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (95% of 21 others)
- Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? yes (95% of 21 others)
- Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? yes, alongside its own file (52% of 21 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Devin 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Kiro 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Amp 71% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads Now part of SpaceX. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | partly (some features need the maker's servers) Editor runs locally and cloud agents can run on self-managed machines (2026-09-02), but model access goes through Cursor's service. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | account required Quickstart: open the app and sign in. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers Customer stories also mention design and ops users. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | AGENTS.md Co-launched AGENTS.md and reads it; also MCP and ACP via CLI; .cursor/rules its own. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you primarily use it? | stands apart its own editor or desktop app | source 2026-10-25 |
| How does finished work usually come back to you? | both are first-class Local agent plus cloud agents. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. | stands apart several vendors' models, only as served by the tool OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI (Grok), own Composer; BYOK exists but carries a Cursor token rate. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? | no | source 2026-10-25 |
| Out of the box, does it ask you before editing files or running shell commands? | doesn't ask (a sandbox or automatic reviewer may still block risky actions) Auto-review is the recommended default since 3.6: commands run in the sandbox or past a classifier; edits apply automatically. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where do the commands it runs execute by default? | stands apart on your machine inside an OS sandbox or container Seatbelt on macOS, Landlock/seccomp on Linux; it falls back to asking when the sandbox is unavailable. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? | yes | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? | yes, alongside its own file | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for agent-editor connections? | yes, as an agent that editors can drive `agent acp` in Cursor CLI. | source 2026-10-25 |
| When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? | a subscription plan from the tool's maker Plus $8 to Ultra $200 with a weekly usage pool shared with Grok; third-party models at API list price. | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Web page · cursor.com/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/blog · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/agent/overview · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/agent/run-modes · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/cli/acp · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/context/mcp · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/context/rules · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/docs/models · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · cursor.com/pricing · read 2026-10-25
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