Cursor Agent CLI
https://cursor.com/blog/cli
Due to Anthropic once choosing the path of creating a terminal programming agent, and the Claude Code project being successful and working well, a new trend emerged to create such variations of coding assistants.

OpenAI replicated this by creating Codex, although it wasn't as successful, but with the release of GPT-5, it began to work much better. Google made its version, which was copied by Chinese Qwen. And so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1MZxYhQIs

So Cursor couldn't resist and, in addition to its VSCode clone, also launched a CLI. It is currently in beta testing. For some reason, the GPT-5 model in Cursor IDE works so-so at launch, but it works well in the CLI. You can also choose any model available at your account's subscription level, unlike Claude Code, which is tied only to Anthropic.

Cursor also copied the bad – on Windows it only works via WSL, i.e., built-in Linux. And although they explicitly write "available everywhere" in their marketing material, Windows users (a paltry 73% of computer users) cannot run it directly.

#cursor #autonomousagents