What it does
Cursor presents itself as a coding agent for building ambitious software, with desktop and command-line interfaces shown on its home page. Work is handed off as tasks, so you can focus on decisions while the agent does the building. Agents use their own computers to build, test and demo features end to end for you to review, and fleets of them can run in parallel on long tasks. The page shows a list of tasks being worked on at once across several repositories. Cursor runs in your terminal, collaborates in Slack and reviews pull requests in GitHub. The site also describes bots that sign in to your tools the way a person would and come back with finished work. You can choose the model for each task from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI and Cursor, or leave it on Auto.
Capabilities
- Desktop and command-line interfaces
- Agents that build, test and demo features on their own computers
- Many agents working in parallel across repositories
- Slack collaboration and GitHub pull request review
- Bots that sign in to your tools and return finished work
- Model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI and Cursor
When to use it
- Delegating features or fixes to an agent and reviewing what comes back
- Running multiple coding tasks at the same time
- Bringing an AI agent into team chat and pull request review
- Choosing the model for each task from several providers, or leaving it on Auto
