Cursor

Cursor is a VS Code–based IDE with built-in AI: Tab completion, inline edit (Cmd+K), agent panel, and cloud agents—on a paid Cursor subscription with access to many frontier models (Composer, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and more). We adopt it under IDE as our default editor stack: one simple ecosystem for multi-model coding when paired with cursor-agent for terminal and CI workflows.

Blurb

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

Summary

Cursor forks the VS Code experience and layers codebase indexing, model picker, rules, and .cursor/skills/ on top. You can dial autonomy from Tab suggestions through targeted edits to full agent runs in the editor or via cursor-agent in the shell.

Choose Cursor when you want a single vendor for GUI + CLI agents, bring-your-own-model flexibility within their catalog, and VS Code–compatible extensions without juggling separate CLIs per provider. It is an editor platform under IDE—the agent runtime in the terminal is cursor-agent under AI Agent.

Details

• Install: https://cursor.com/download (macOS, Windows, Linux); familiar VS Code layout and keybindings.
• Auth: Cursor Pro / Business / Enterprise subscription for models and agent features.
• Models: switch per task in the agent UI; Composer family plus major third-party models.
• Features: Tab model, inline edit, cloud agents, PR review (Bugbot), Slack/GitHub integrations per product docs.
• Skills: .cursor/rules and .cursor/skills/; portable SKILL.md repos in Agent Skills - Sources.
• Fit: Tool / IDE—primary editor distribution (not the headless agent binary).
• Contrast: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode when you want a non-Cursor agent hub; cursor-agent for the same stack in terminal/automation.