Cursor CLI

At a glance

What Cursor CLI does

Headless agent, Background tasks, Cursor model picker, MCP, Shell access

Best for

Cursor users wanting headless agent runs from the terminal and CI pipelines

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Cursor CLI works in any terminal but needs an active Cursor subscription — your IDE is VS Code, which is fine but the cost is tied to Cursor.
• Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Cursor CLI cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
• Cursor CLI does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
• Cursor CLI has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Void Editor is BYO-API-key first — Cursor CLI runs as an extension on top, which can work but isn't the intended Void workflow.
• Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Cursor CLI may not have an official plugin yet.
• Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Cursor CLI may install but is not officially supported.
• Cursor CLI does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
• Cursor CLI does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
• Cursor CLI does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
• Cursor CLI does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
• @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Cursor CLI).
• Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Cursor CLI).
• Windsurf codebase indexing only works with Windsurf Cascade integration (yours is Cursor CLI).
• Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Cursor CLI).