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shell

The text interface where you run commands. What an agent is reaching for when it asks to run something.

dev 23 videos 121 mentions also: terminal, command line

Where it comes up

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 1:2133 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 Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 9:4211 mentions

“Uh it does it have s? No, it doesn't have s. Start game. It's going to the terminal to run some commands. And it seems like it's spinning up now. And you can see this is our robo code. Um you can see sitting duck and tracker is fighting. ca…”

Cursor 101

Apr 7, 2026first said at 5:277 mentions

“Uh multi-agent terminal, so this is if you've used Cloud Code, something similar like that. You can run them in your terminal. Uh and let's see, for front-end engineers and designers, this is super cool. You can have uh features around the…”

Cursor for Mobile Developers

Apr 23, 2026first said at 3:277 mentions

“need there. And then you're just going to have your uh terminal here. So, for each agent that's going to run, it's going to have its own sandbox terminal. Um so, you can access that as well. And then you're going to have that cursor browser…”

Cursor for Security Teams

Feb 5, 2026first said at 18:266 mentions

“call. So we have a prod account. Um if I want to go and get admin, I will say run literally like creds prod and then it goes and calls the script and that script sets environment variables of its shell that agent itself never sees. So now i…”

PRD to PR

Mar 18, 2026first said at 5:416 mentions

“and then the terminal on the bottom. Uh and then we have this agent pane on the right. Um and I will just quickly walk through this and then we can kind of dive deep. Uh so, in the agent pane, this is kind of like where you're going to be d…”

Cursor 201

May 19, 2026first said at 4:535 mentions

“code, it it's here, you know, like we're we're not trying to hide the code or the the terminal from you like you can still get to that layer if you want to. But, for the most part, I'm going to be interacting with the agent directly. I'm go…”

Cursor for Data Science

Feb 19, 2026first said at 5:565 mentions

“All right. Okay. So, with that said, I'm going to go ahead and start uh sharing the cursor IDE real quick. Um, so here we have the cursor IDE. Um, and so for folks who maybe are a little unfamiliar, um, this is kind of how I like to have it…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 1:345 mentions

“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 101

May 7, 2026first said at 1:594 mentions

“um go to your editor window, or you could press file. Excuse me. Or you could press file and go to your new editor window. Switch to agent's window. Okay, so if I press editor window, now we should be looking at the old traditional IDE. I h…”

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 4:394 mentions

“open up the terminal. There's also if you prefer to keep your controls up here, you can do that as well. But I'm going to open up the terminal. And I'm using pmppm. So I'm going to do pmppm rundev. I also have this alias to just PN, but you…”

Cursor for Enterprise

Apr 16, 2026first said at 14:124 mentions

“So users have a little bit of flexibility there as well. Awesome. Cool. Jumping into the next piece on like a deployment scenario as well is sandboxing. So sandboxing pretty deep subject. I actually have a just linked out here a blog articl…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 22:414 mentions

“access. Um and then also like potentially controlling auto run mode which commands can be executed automatically in the terminal as well as for the browser control which websites can be run automatically. >> Exactly. And then another questi…”

Securing Agentic Coding at Scale

Feb 17, 2026first said at 9:334 mentions

“And so, uh, maybe every time a developer sends a prompt to the agent, your audit script fires first and that could log the prompt. It could scan for sensitive content before it ever hits the model. Basically, you'd be able to um specify wha…”

Cloud Agents

Mar 19, 2026first said at 9:193 mentions

“And then the last thing I want to show is uh you and we'll see this in action is Cursor actually has access to its own computer and mouse. And what that means is that you'll be able to kind of uh test things manually for you. Um looks like…”

Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills

Mar 5, 2026first said at 26:573 mentions

“working on for several days. So, I'm going to be creating uh this project. I'm going to open it. I'm going to close it. I'm going to open. And each time I come and work on it, I'm going to want to spin up the local environment uh to get thi…”

Cursor for Support Teams

Nov 13, 2025first said at 8:532 mentions

“the tooling that's available to the cursor agent, to the AI. Um, we have plan mode, which we'll talk about in a second. um ask mode and agent mode. Agent mode basically provides the full suite of um code writing, editing, file transfer and…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

Jan 8, 2026first said at 8:592 mentions

“And we want that too. We need both of those things. And the agent because it has access to tools like running shell commands, reading things from your repository, reading files, it can go in and it can do a very good job with that migration…”

Training Composer 2

May 14, 2026first said at 1:322 mentions

“files, use code base search, collect lint, and run terminal commands. And the agent would kind of cycle between these in order to make the edit. Within the last several months, we've seen a major change where people are moving from single c…”

Cursor 201

Apr 14, 2026first said at 37:341 mention

“And then I come over to the side panel. I have a couple different options up here. These are my changes, so I have no local changes now. There's a terminal view in here. And then this is the integrated browser view. Um see if my local is st…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 2:251 mention

“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…”

Cursor for Knowledge Work

Apr 30, 2026first said at 2:221 mention

“And there's a few different ways working with Cursor that has evolved um into more and more agent-centric. There's always the code-centric view that we all know and love, where you can go ahead and directly start editing files. There's the…”

Cursor for Product Managers

Dec 4, 2025first said at 22:111 mention

“Um, so I just clicked it and it actually switched us back into our editor layout. So this is what uh engineers are probably pretty familiar with where you have your code uh editor front and center. You have your files on the lefth hand side…”