{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cursor-cli", "name": "Cursor CLI", "vendor": "Cursor", "vendorUrl": "https://cursor.com/cli", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Cursor's coding agent in the terminal, run as `agent` (also `cursor-agent`).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cursor-cli.json", "license": "Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`agent login` through a browser, or an API key passed with `--api-key` or `CURSOR_API_KEY` for headless runs.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Hobby is free with limited Agent requests and needs no card. Individual is $20 a month, Teams $40 a user a month and Enterprise by quote. Every plan includes a set amount of model usage, with on-demand usage billed in arrears, and the pricing page gives no dollar or request figure for either (checked 2026-10-02).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://cursor.com/docs/cli/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://cursor.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "free-tier", "no-card", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 35.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1085, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 39, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 25, "reliability": 27, "schema": 39, "security": 46, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2025-10-02 and 2025-11-03. Four high advisories that name the CLI, all fixed. Remote code execution in Cursor CLI through Cursor Agent MCP OAuth2 communication (GHSA-wj33-264c-j9cq), arbitrary code execution through a permissive CLI config (GHSA-v64q-396f-7m79), a sensitive-file overwrite bypass in the CLI agent (GHSA-x2vq-h6v6-jhc6) and command injection through an untrusted MCP configuration in Cursor CLI Beta (GHSA-4hwr-97q3-37w2). All older than six months, so 1 point each (https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories)", "2026-01-14. GHSA-82wg-qcm4-fp2w, high, terminal tool allowlist bypass through environment variables. It doesn't name the CLI, which runs the same terminal tool and allowlist idea. Fixed and published, 1 point. Judgement call. We left out the 2026 sandbox escapes titled for Cursor Desktop and Cloud Agents (https://github.com/cursor/cursor/security/advisories)" ], "verdict": "Allow and deny rules for shell, reads, writes, web fetches and MCP tools, with deny taking precedence. No CLI changelog, and versions are dates.", "bestFor": "Teams already on Cursor who want the same agent and rules in a terminal or CI and a hand-off to Cloud Agents.", "strengths": [ "Allow and deny rules for shell, reads, writes, web fetches and MCP tools, with deny taking precedence", "Print mode with text, json and stream-json output, plus `--resume` and `--continue`", "Plan and ask (read-only) modes alongside the default agent mode", "Hands a task to Cloud Agents by prefixing the message with `\u0026`", "A free Hobby plan with no card, and a status page with a CLI component" ], "weaknesses": [ "No CLI changelog, and versions are dates", "The install script checks no checksum or signature", "No documentation of CLI telemetry or of what runs without approval by default", "Four high advisories named the CLI in October and November 2025", "Closed source, with no public issue tracker" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `--trust` in headless runs, or the workspace prompt stops a run with no terminal", "Write deny rules in .cursor/cli.json before using `--force`. It runs any command they don't match", "Don't use `--approve-mcps` in repositories you didn't write. Two 2025 CLI advisories came through MCP", "Set `CURSOR_API_KEY` in CI. `agent login` opens a browser", "Record `agent --version` with each run. Versions are dates and there's no CLI changelog to compare against" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 35.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 25, "reliability": 27, "schema": 39, "security": 46, "transparency": 27 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "install": "curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash", "headless": { "run": "agent -p \"fix the failing test\" --output-format json --trust" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cursor-cli" }, "sameCompany": [ "grok-bot" ], "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Individual plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "includes a set amount of model usage" }, { "item": "Teams", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 40, "note": "per user" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Anysphere, Inc.", "domain": "cursor.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-12-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cursor.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://cursor.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cursor.com", "changelog": "https://cursor.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The terms of service (updated 3 September 2026) name Anysphere, Inc.", "RDAP (Verisign) gives cursor.com a registration date of 1995-12-20, long before Anysphere.", "cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Contact line pointing to Cursor's GitHub security advisories and no Expires line, which RFC 9116 requires. The site's tracker reads a file with a Contact and no Expires as valid.", "The changelog covers all of Cursor, and we found no CLI-only changelog." ], "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.json", "live": { "slug": "cursor-cli", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cursor.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:03.979272924Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:53:06.773895252Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://cursor.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:24:49.883562463Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cursor.com", "registered": "1995-12-20", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cursor.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:35:23.722165404Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cursor.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:25:43.179002775Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:19:15.838578498Z", "fingerprint": "1dae0b3b9f21" }, { "url": "https://cursor.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:25:47.355002435Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-12T19:47:26.814948391Z", "fingerprint": "de820b76d93a" }, { "url": "https://cursor.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:25:49.266389402Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-12T19:47:28.837484948Z", "fingerprint": "9d3b90a09b77" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:03.979272924Z" } }, "answer": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) scores 49.2 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "deepseek-harness", "name": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "vendor": "DeepSeek", "vendorUrl": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) is DeepSeek's MIT-licensed agent harness, a developer preview built from plugins over the Cordis framework. It runs as a local Web UI, a one-shot headless command, an ACP server or a JSON-RPC server for its Python SDK.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-harness.json", "repo": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@deepseek-ai/dsh" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "deepseek-harness-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "No account with the project. A model key goes in the environment, `$DSH_HOME/.credentials.yaml`, a `.env` file or the Web UI settings, for DeepSeek (`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`), a catalogue provider or a custom OpenAI or Anthropic-compatible endpoint, including a self-hosted one. The Web UI listens on loopback and authenticates each request.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy for the harness. The owner pays the model provider, usually DeepSeek's API at its published per-token rates, or nothing with a self-hosted model.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the CLI reference or the docs index (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 244843, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/", "llmsTxt": "https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "open-source", "typescript", "python", "mcp", "acp", "llms-txt", "telemetry-default-on", "pre-1.0", "preview", "free", "no-card", "local" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 909, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 33, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 33, "schema": 77, "security": 40, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-08. CVE-2026-82533 (CVSS 9.6, published by VulnCheck). The local HTTP agent-control API trusted a client-supplied loopback Host header, so a sandboxed tool process could reach it, escape the sandbox and turn off approvals, and a tunnelled port exposed it remotely. Fixed in 0.1.2-alpha.1 with commit 3e24087 per the NVD record. Fixed, inside six months, -2. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82533", "2026-09-28 to 2026-10-16. Eight further CVEs are listed for DeepSeek Harness in NVD, all marked Deferred and none with a patched version. Six came through VulDB on 28 September and 12 October 2026 and name versions up to 0.1.0-rc.7, 0.1.1-rc.2, 0.1.5-rc.3 and 0.1.7-rc.2, with CVSS 3.1 scores of 3.1 to 6.3. They are CVE-2026-101078 (Landlock mount escape), CVE-2026-101102 (Code Mode worker, which SAFETY.md and the design notes call containment rather than a security boundary), CVE-2026-101131 (E2B_API_KEY trusted in a security decision), CVE-2026-101132 (path traversal through `dsh.bundle.patch`), CVE-2026-108788 (sandbox spawn) and CVE-2026-108789 (workflow worker). Each says the vendor was contacted early and did not respond. CVE-2026-95182 (CVSS 10.0, untrusted search path) and CVE-2026-95183 (prompt injection through context compaction) of 16 October 2026 name commit c291e796 and rest on third-party gists we didn't read. Read the way the PicoClaw note was. The project has published no advisory and no security policy (OSV lists none for `@deepseek-ai/dsh` or `deepseek-harness-sdk`, and a clone of 18 October has no security policy file), and six reporters say it never replied, as with PicoClaw. We read all eight NVD records but none of the write-ups. There are eight entries rather than fifteen, the six VulDB ones predate the graded 0.2.0-rc.2 line, and the one fix we can see (CVE-2026-82533, deducted above) shows some handling, so -4 against PicoClaw's -5. https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=deepseek-harness" ], "verdict": "Headless runs, ACP and a Python SDK make it easy to drive from a script, and approvals fail closed when nobody can answer. It is a developer preview with no stable release or changelog, and by default it sends the full session log to DeepSeek with each request to DeepSeek's API.", "bestFor": "Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, with headless `--json`, an ACP stdio server and a JSON-RPC server for the Python SDK from one `dsh` command", "In headless and ACP runs an approval nobody answers is denied, so the default `workspace-write` plus `ask` preset fails closed", "File writes are confined to the workspace by bwrap or Landlock on Linux, Seatbelt on macOS and restricted tokens on Windows", "`--dump-config-schema` prints a JSON Schema 2020-12 document for the composed configuration, and the docs serve llms.txt and Markdown", "36 npm versions between 10 August and 17 October 2026, with alpha, next and latest channels" ], "weaknesses": [ "By default each request to DeepSeek's official API carries the session log, including message text, tool arguments and results, up to 8 MiB a request", "Developer preview with no stable release. npm `latest` is 0.2.0-rc.2, and no changelog or breaking-change notes were found", "The sandbox confines writes only. Reads and network access are not confined, and `web_fetch` runs without approval", "No SECURITY.md or security.txt. NVD lists nine CVEs from September and October 2026, six saying the vendor did not respond", "The Python SDK's minimal profile pins `danger-full-access` with no approval service, and external pull requests are not accepted" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row in a profile patch before running on private code. Otherwise the session log goes to DeepSeek with each official API request", "Set `DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE=DISABLED` to stop OpenTelemetry uploads, which send the session prefix to a DeepSeek collector after any feedback", "Treat exit code 1 and the `turn_end` reason as failure. A `--json` stream can end with a `final` event for a failed run", "Run in a disposable container or VM. The sandbox doesn't confine reads or network, and SAFETY.md says the project has had no security audit", "Pin the version. npm `latest` (0.2.0-rc.2) and `next` (0.2.1-rc.2) differ, DeepSeek's changelog asks for 0.2.1-rc.1 or later, and the README warns of breaking changes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 33, "schema": 77, "security": 40, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 40 }, "connect": { "install": "npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web # or: python -m pip install deepseek-harness-sdk", "headless": { "command": "npx @deepseek-ai/dsh --profile headless --json \"$TASK\"", "env": { "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e", "DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE": "DISABLED" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-harness" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "DeepSeek (the LICENSE names DeepSeek, and no legal entity is named in the repository or the docs)", "domain": "deepseek-harness.github.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The project publishes no terms or privacy policy of its own. Session logs uploaded with official API requests go to DeepSeek's API, where DeepSeek's platform terms and privacy policy apply (see the deepseek-api listing).", "No SECURITY.md in the repository root or .github, and deepseek-harness.github.io/.well-known/security.txt and www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 18 October 2026.", "No CHANGELOG.md in the repository and no release notes on the docs site. Versions are on npm and PyPI only.", "GitHub's web pages and API were not read. A compiled record of 18 October (shields.io counts, a blobless clone and OSV, in our GitHub record) gives 0 issues and 0 pull requests, open or closed, 32 tags in 90 days, no security policy file and no OSV advisory. Stars, CI results and Discussions remain unchecked." ], "score": 40 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cursor", "b": "DeepSeek", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-28", "b": "2026-10-17", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "245k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1.5/5 (2)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) scores 49.2 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or DeepSeek Harness (dsh)?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Cursor CLI and DeepSeek Harness (dsh) open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 46 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 50" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams already on Cursor who want the same agent and rules in a terminal or CI and a hand-off to Cloud Agents.", "slug": "cursor-cli", "watchFor": "No CLI changelog, and versions are dates" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 33 against 27", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 39", "Agent ergonomics, 68 against 42", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 62" ], "also": [ "Open source", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.5 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK.", "slug": "deepseek-harness", "watchFor": "By default each request to DeepSeek's official API carries the session log, including message text, tool arguments and results, up to 8 MiB a request" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Aider vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Aider vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Amp vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Amp vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cursor-cli" }, { 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-gemini-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Gemini CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-gemini-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-github-copilot-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs GitHub Copilot CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-github-copilot-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-goose.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harness2.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Harness²", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harness2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-junie.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-warp.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-devin.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Devin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-devin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-droid-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Droid CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-droid-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-gemini-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Gemini CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-gemini-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-github-copilot-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs GitHub Copilot CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-github-copilot-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-goose.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harness2.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Harness²", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harness2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-junie.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-opencode.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-openhands.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-warp.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-parallax-agents" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 6, "cursor-cli": 27, "deepseek-harness": 33, "edge": "deepseek-harness", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 38, "cursor-cli": 39, "deepseek-harness": 77, "edge": "deepseek-harness", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 26, "cursor-cli": 42, "deepseek-harness": 68, "edge": "deepseek-harness", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "cursor-cli": 46, "deepseek-harness": 40, "edge": "cursor-cli", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "cursor-cli": 25, "deepseek-harness": 60, "edge": "deepseek-harness", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "cursor-cli": 62, "deepseek-harness": 71, "edge": "deepseek-harness", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "cursor-cli": 59, "deepseek-harness": 50, "edge": "cursor-cli", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) scores 49.2 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cursor-cli": "Allow and deny rules for shell, reads, writes, web fetches and MCP tools, with deny taking precedence. No CLI changelog, and versions are dates.", "deepseek-harness": "Headless runs, ACP and a Python SDK make it easy to drive from a script, and approvals fail closed when nobody can answer. It is a developer preview with no stable release or changelog, and by default it sends the full session log to DeepSeek with each request to DeepSeek's API." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.min.md" }, "markdown": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) scores 49.2 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Cursor CLI: grade F, 35.3/100, rank #1085 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cursor-cli.json\n- DeepSeek Harness (dsh): grade D, 49.2/100, rank #909 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-harness.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cursor CLI (F)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Cursor who want the same agent and rules in a terminal or CI and a hand-off to Cloud Agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 46 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 50\n\nWatch for: No CLI changelog, and versions are dates\n\n### DeepSeek Harness (dsh) (D)\n\nGood for: Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 33 against 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 39\n- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 42\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 62\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: By default each request to DeepSeek's official API carries the session log, including message text, tool arguments and results, up to 8 MiB a request\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cursor CLI | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 33 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 77 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +38 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 68 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +26 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 40 | Cursor CLI +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 71 | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 50 | Cursor CLI +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **35.3 · F** | **49.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cursor CLI | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cursor | DeepSeek |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | none | 245k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cursor CLI.** Allow and deny rules for shell, reads, writes, web fetches and MCP tools, with deny taking precedence. No CLI changelog, and versions are dates.\n\n**DeepSeek Harness (dsh).** Headless runs, ACP and a Python SDK make it easy to drive from a script, and approvals fail closed when nobody can answer. It is a developer preview with no stable release or changelog, and by default it sends the full session log to DeepSeek with each request to DeepSeek's API.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cursor CLI\n\n1. Pass `--trust` in headless runs, or the workspace prompt stops a run with no terminal\n2. Write deny rules in .cursor/cli.json before using `--force`. It runs any command they don't match\n3. Don't use `--approve-mcps` in repositories you didn't write. Two 2025 CLI advisories came through MCP\n4. Set `CURSOR_API_KEY` in CI. `agent login` opens a browser\n5. Record `agent --version` with each run. Versions are dates and there's no CLI changelog to compare against\n\n### DeepSeek Harness (dsh)\n\n1. Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row in a profile patch before running on private code. Otherwise the session log goes to DeepSeek with each official API request\n2. Set `DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE=DISABLED` to stop OpenTelemetry uploads, which send the session prefix to a DeepSeek collector after any feedback\n3. Treat exit code 1 and the `turn_end` reason as failure. A `--json` stream can end with a `final` event for a failed run\n4. Run in a disposable container or VM. The sandbox doesn't confine reads or network, and SAFETY.md says the project has had no security audit\n5. Pin the version. npm `latest` (0.2.0-rc.2) and `next` (0.2.1-rc.2) differ, DeepSeek's changelog asks for 0.2.1-rc.1 or later, and the README warns of breaking changes\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or DeepSeek Harness (dsh)?\n\nDeepSeek Harness (dsh) scores 49.2 (D) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Cursor CLI and DeepSeek Harness (dsh) open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cursor-cli\", \"b\": \"deepseek-harness\"}`. 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