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CLI

A program you drive from the terminal with arguments and flags. Easy for an agent to use, because the interface is text in and text out.

dev 22 videos 110 mentions also: command-line tool

Where it comes up

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 1:2146 mentions

“but, um, in some way in some ways least well-known, uh, elements of the Cursor platform, which is our CLI. So, I'm going to do a quick check here. Trevor, can you see should have a browser on the left and my terminals here on the right. You…”

Cursor for Mobile Developers

Apr 23, 2026first said at 13:5515 mentions

“between the two um, and kind of extend the functionality. Um, if you guys are are CLI users, you can you can also use uh, you know, the CLI here as well. Um, for those of you that aren't familiar with the CLI, uh, we have a CLI that matches…”

Cursor for Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 0:0013 mentions

“Uh today we'll be talking about cursor uh the product that everyone loves so much. [laughter] So let's go ahead and get started. Um in the past few years we've been working very hard to make cursor into not only just a IDE but into an ecosy…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 2:256 mentions

“product primitives for every single use case so that you're able to use cursor across the entire life cycle and very much polishing those handoffs. So being able to use things like bugbot for example for coderview and things like CLI comman…”

PRD to PR

Mar 18, 2026first said at 2:125 mentions

“We don't really have to go over that. Um again, we can use Cursor throughout all of these different platforms. Um so, the CLI, the desktop, um the the mobile agents, um and now JetBrains IDEs as well. Um so, specifically we're mostly going…”

Cursor 201

May 19, 2026first said at 2:283 mentions

“Uh and then we'll we'll cover the CLI if we have time. Um but we also want to open this up to to Q&A from you folks. So, if you have questions, you know, put them in the chat as we go here, and then we'll we'll we'll have some dedicated tim…”

Cursor for Knowledge Work

Apr 30, 2026first said at 1:433 mentions

“Cursor agents, which you can run on the web, through Slack, and now we recently launched our API and back um SDK yesterday. Uh you can also set up always-on automations, which I'll be demoing a bit later for those repetitive tasks you have…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 18:553 mentions

“>> Yes. So something to keep in mind is that cursor is a VS code fork. So typically we'll see users replace uh Visual Studio Code uh with cursor directly. When it comes to Visual Studio specifically for uh you know specific like programming…”

Cursor for Security Teams

Feb 5, 2026first said at 5:542 mentions

“that you can use like I'm running this in sandbox, but when it's coming to running this command, I want to approve it. And so, that's what it's doing here. And what I will do is just read this. Um, agent generating this command is very fast…”

Cursor x Slack

Apr 27, 2026first said at 35:262 mentions

“And when the agent is aware of those product areas to team mapping, uh it can ping individuals on the team to check the get history, use the get CLI to actually go and pull like get status um and uh actually build more context around, you k…”

Cursor 101

Apr 7, 2026first said at 4:381 mention

“All right. So, uh here there are many ways of working. As I mentioned earlier, it's a platform that we're dealing with, not just an IDE, or not just uh CLI. There's a lot of things you can do, and we're going to look at this a lot right her…”

Cursor Admin Guide

Mar 31, 2026first said at 5:071 mention

“provides. Most people are familiar with the Cursor desktop app or the IDE, but Cursor also has a new cloud agent platform. It we have a CLI, uh and some other ways in which you can work with uh with with Cursor across a lot of different sur…”

Cursor Agent SDK

May 12, 2026first said at 2:591 mention

“and how you can go ahead and and build with it. And like we said a few times now, please put questions in the in the chat because uh we want to make sure that this is as helpful as possible for everybody here. Um so so what is the SDK? Well…”

Cursor for Data Science

Feb 19, 2026first said at 0:261 mention

“very rapidly pivot into the demo and spend the lion share of uh today's time there. But for those who are brand new to cursor just want to talk about like what makes cursor fundamentally different and why it represents just like a new appro…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 1:341 mention

“bugbot is our automated code review agents. Um, and that helps teams catch issues as early as possible. Um, to help with making improving quality of code that's going into production. We also recognize that not all developers um are working…”

Cursor for Support Teams

Nov 13, 2025first said at 24:451 mention

“Google should let you terraform workspace administration repo by Google's open source gam to leverage cursor agent hooks Gemini CLI and terminal plus local context partnering with me on this at all. Um, yeah, John, feel free to reach out to…”

Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills

Mar 5, 2026first said at 41:561 mention

“uh that they wanted a cursor to be able to do. And we were always trying to play catch-up, trying to make everybody happy, including everybody's features. And we pretty quickly realized that we needed a solution like hooks that would allow…”

Developer Productivity Trends

Jan 27, 2026first said at 24:381 mention

“um as well. Um and then again tab completions and messages sent um are down here as well. Um you can see the active users over time across all the different features that we have. So across agent, bugbot, cloud agents and CLI. Um you can al…”

Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era

Mar 26, 2026first said at 2:131 mention

“questions throughout the presentation. So, before [clears throat] we dive in, I just want to give a quick sort of lay the land on where you can use Cursor today. So, we are absolutely not just a like desktop application anymore. Um a year a…”

How Cursor uses Cursor

Apr 9, 2026first said at 1:461 mention

“in your software development life cycle. We're also supporting our CLI as a first class product where it's going to have feature parity with the IDE and be another great option for working with her agents. Lastly, the two things I would rec…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 25:301 mention

“I'm prompting it. I'm giving it instructions. I'm reviewing the plans it generates. That works really well for working in the IDE or our agents window or working with the CLI, [snorts] right? Um there's there's some optimization for latency…”

Securing Agentic Coding at Scale

Feb 17, 2026first said at 15:291 mention

“different surfaces that you use to code. So whether that's the editor or the CLI or cloud agents, uh that's sort of layer one. And then on top of that is an administrative dashboard which gives you a view both in terms of analytics and usag…”