Cursor Agent
Basic Information
Website: https://www.cursor.com/
Short description: Cursor is a coding assistant designed to help draft and review code [source]
Intended uses: What does the developer state that the system is intended for?: General purpose code development [source]
Date(s) deployed: March 14, 2023, however a coding "agent" was not introduced within cursor until November 24, 2024 [source]
Developer
Website: https://www.cursor.com/
Legal name: Anysphere, Inc [source]
Entity type: Corporation
Country (location of developer or first author's first affiliation): Incorporation: Delaware, USA (Anysphere, Inc. 6524309) [source]
Safety policies: What safety and/or responsibility policies are in place?: Unknown
System Components
Backend model(s): What model(s) are used to power the system?: Variable including GPT and Claude models [source]
Public model specification: Is there formal documentation on the system’s intend...: None
Description of reasoning, planning, and memory implementation: How does the syst...: Cursor agent works in a "shadow" workspace in which is can iteratively develop draft code before suggesting to the user [source] [source]
Observation space: What is the system able to observe while 'thinking'?: Cursor can see all files in a codebase [source] and is able to browse the web [source]
Action space/tools: What direct actions can the system take?: Cursor is designed to only suggest pieces of code to the user. Cursor can run code in its "shadow workspace", but it is sandboxed [source]
User interface: How do users interact with the system?: Cursor is a coding IDE created as a fork of VSCode [source]
Development cost and compute: What is known about the development costs?: Unknown
Guardrails & Oversight
Accessibility of components
Weights: Are model parameters available?: N/A; backends external model(s) via API
Data: Is data available?: N/A; backends external model(s) via API
Code: Is code available?: Closed source
Scaffolding: Is system scaffolding available?: Closed source
Controls and guardrails: What notable methods are used to protect against harmfu...: Users can define specific rules for cursor [source]
Monitoring and shutdown procedures: Are there any notable methods or protocols t...: Cursor can only propose actions to a user for them to accept or reject. Cursor can run code in the shadow workspace, but it is sandboxed [source]
Customer and usage restrictions: Are there know-your-customer measures or other ...: None
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations (e.g., on SWE-Bench Verified): None
Bespoke testing (e.g., demos): Demos [source]
Safety: Have safety evaluations been conducted by the developers? What were the ...: None
Publicly reported external red-teaming or comparable auditing
Personnel: Who were the red-teamers/auditors?: None
Scope, scale, access, and methods: What access did red-teamers/auditors have and...: None
Findings: What did the red-teamers/auditors conclude?: None