Privacy Mode
The Cursor setting where your code is not retained or trained on. Worth checking before you point any of this at a work repository.
Where it comes up
Cursor Automations
“future. Mhm. Didn't want to touch on like privacy mode. So, cloud agents respect the same privacy mode as your user account. So, if it's enabled, none of the code will be used for training. It doesn't work with legacy privacy mode, so we do…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“With our privacy mode enabled, this is obviously a setting. By default, privacy mode is enabled for all of our enterprise customers and this essentially shows that ensures that code is never stored by any of the model providers or or never…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“controls. So what you're seeing right now being able to deterministically say the agent is able to do this or it's able to not do this with things like hooks and sandboxing. Being able to decide what commands or MCPs you can run and allow l…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“So, in an enterprise context, a few things that um that Cursor has put in place, there's going to be privacy mode on by default and it can't be turned off. We have zero data retention agreements in place with all of the major model and so,…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“>> Cool. And so before we get into maybe the like agentic specific controls, we can just cover the foundation. Uh and so you know none of the governance stuff we're going to talk about after this matter if the basics aren't locked down. And…”