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      "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": 617,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 17,
        "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"
      },
      "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": "2026-10-08T19:06:34.068208988Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://cursor.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:46.365788319Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://cursor.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:17.721936541Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "cursor.com",
          "registered": "1995-12-20",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cursor.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:09.510989819Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://cursor.com/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:46.108342977Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:03:43.356086965Z",
            "fingerprint": "ff1c429484e4"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cursor.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:48.161554363Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "a5f74b5510f1"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cursor.com/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:50.171295182Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "5db93dae47db"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:34.068208988Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Devin scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "devin",
      "name": "Devin",
      "vendor": "Cognition AI, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://devin.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Devin is Cognition's hosted coding agent. It works in its own cloud virtual machine to plan, edit code, run commands and open pull requests. Outside agents start and steer sessions through a REST API and a remote MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/devin.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A Bearer token with the `cog_` prefix on every request to https://api.devin.ai/v3. Service-user keys are provisioned by a person in Settings \u003e Devin API, shown once, and carry a role (Admin or Member on Teams, custom roles on Enterprise). Personal access tokens act as the user who made them and can expire. Legacy `apk_` keys work only with the deprecated v1 and v2 APIs. The MCP server takes the same keys, and enterprise keys and personal tokens add an `X-Org-Id` header. Access is self-serve, with no app review or sales approval for Teams.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free $0, Pro $20 a month, Max $200 a month, Teams $80 a month minimum with full seats at $40 each, Enterprise by quote (devin.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-08). Paid plans include a daily or weekly usage quota, then prepaid on-demand credits described as usage at API pricing, with no unit rate on the page. The pricing page lists cloud agents from Pro upward, while the docs say Free includes limited Devin usage. Whether the API works on Free, and whether signup needs a card, wasn't established.",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the v3 OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 13,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.devin.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.devin.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.devin.ai/v3-openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "cloud-agent",
        "closed-source",
        "api-key",
        "rbac",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "status-page",
        "soc2",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55.7,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 447,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 15,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 62,
          "maintenance": 63,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 72,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The v3 API is well specified, with a public OpenAPI 3.1 file covering 239 operations, problem+json errors, cursor pagination and service-user keys tied to roles. The status page records three critical and several major incidents on the cloud agent between 22 July and 24 September 2026, and no rate limit figures or retry guidance were found in the reviewed documentation.",
        "bestFor": "A team that wants to hand whole tasks to a cloud agent and collect pull requests, driven from a pipeline or another agent.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the v3 API with 239 operations, each declaring 401, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 responses in RFC 9457 problem+json",
          "Service-user keys carry a role, every endpoint except GET /v3/self names the permission it needs, and audit logs list service users separately from people",
          "Security profiles can limit a session to a network allowlist, an MCP server allowlist, read-only git and a read-only Devin MCP",
          "Remote MCP server at mcp.devin.ai/mcp with 13 documented tools for sessions, playbooks, knowledge, schedules and repository documentation",
          "Dated release notes several times a week, the newest on 7 October 2026, and a separate API release notes page"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "www.devinstatus.com lists three critical incidents (22 July, 13 August, 24 September 2026) and six major ones on the cloud agent or web app since 10 July 2026",
          "No rate limit figures, Retry-After or backoff guidance found in the API docs, and v3 session creation has no idempotency key",
          "Customer data may be used for model training by default on self-serve plans. The opt-out is for paid plans only, per section 3.3.1 of the platform terms",
          "A person must sign up and provision the service user in the web app. No key-creation route exists for an agent starting from nothing",
          "No official SDK found, and the Devin MCP server was not found in the official MCP registry"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use a `cog_` service-user key with the Member role. Legacy `apk_` keys fail against v3 and the MCP server with 401 or 403",
          "Set `max_acu_limit` on every session you create. Usage is metered by the work done and has no published unit rate",
          "Session creation is not idempotent in v3. After a timeout, list sessions by tag before creating again",
          "Enterprise keys and personal access tokens must send `X-Org-Id` to the MCP server. Organisation-scoped keys resolve it automatically",
          "Create scheduled work as an automation. POST to the schedules endpoint returns 403 for migrated organisations since 24 September 2026"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 62,
          "maintenance": 63,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 72,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "provenanceScore": 77
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.devin.ai/v3/organizations/$DEVIN_ORG_ID/sessions\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DEVIN_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"prompt\": \"Create a simple Python script that prints Hello World\"}'",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "devin": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer \u003cAPI_KEY\u003e",
                "X-Org-Id": "\u003cYOUR_ORG_ID\u003e"
              },
              "serverUrl": "https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/devin"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "one user, daily and weekly usage quota"
        },
        {
          "item": "Max plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "one user, larger weekly quota"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams full seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "$80 a month minimum per team, flex seats free and billed from shared credits"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Cognition AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "devin.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2022-12-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://cognition.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://cognition.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://www.devinstatus.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Platform Terms of Service (last updated 30 June 2026) name Cognition AI, Inc. and govern the Cognition Platform for customers who register and use the services. Enterprise customers sign separate Enterprise Terms of Service.",
          "The privacy policy (last updated 9 March 2026) names Cognition AI, Inc and covers Devin and Windsurf as well as cognition.com. The data processing agreement gives the address 550 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.",
          "devin.ai, cognition.com and api.devin.ai all return 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. The docs give security@cognition.ai for vulnerability reports.",
          "The API answers at api.devin.ai and the MCP server at mcp.devin.ai. status.devin.ai redirects to www.devinstatus.com.",
          "RDAP for devin.ai gives a registration date of 2022-12-06."
        ],
        "score": 77
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "devin",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:45.013833265Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 406,
          "lastMs": 426,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 450,
          "p95ms24h": 579,
          "samples24h": 19,
          "samples30d": 19,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 19,
              "ok": 19
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.devinstatus.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:34.332954915Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:39.860758812Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "a85f82787c20"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cognition.com/legal/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:28.045423959Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "0ab177a921b1"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cognition.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:26.004141328Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e794136b2fe5"
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        ],
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      }
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Cursor",
        "b": "Cognition AI, Inc.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "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": "Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "13",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-28",
        "b": "2026-10-07",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-03",
        "b": "2026-06-30",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-29",
        "b": "2026-03-09",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes, with an opt-out",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "1.5/5 (2)",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Devin scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or Devin?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Free to start without a card"
        ],
        "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"
      },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/devin.json\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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No CLI changelog, and versions are dates\n\n### Devin (C)\n\nGood for: A team that wants to hand whole tasks to a cloud agent and collect pull requests, driven from a pipeline or another agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 39\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 46\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Cursor CLI loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: www.devinstatus.com lists three critical incidents (22 July, 13 August, 24 September 2026) and six major ones on the cloud agent or web app since 10 July 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cursor CLI | Devin | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 30 | Devin +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 80 | Devin +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 62 | Devin +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 72 | Devin +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Cursor CLI +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 63 | Devin +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 69 | Devin +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **35.3 · F** | **55.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cursor CLI | Devin |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cursor | Cognition AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports |  | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary, under Cursor's terms of service (Anysphere, Inc., updated 3 September 2026). No source is published | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service |\n| Tools exposed | none | 13 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-06-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | 2026-03-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cursor CLI.** Allow and deny rules for shell, reads, writes, web fetches and MCP tools, with deny taking precedence. 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