{ "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": "Jules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "jules", "name": "Jules", "vendor": "Google LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://jules.google", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent, which clones a GitHub repository into a cloud virtual machine, plans, edits and opens pull requests. Outside agents drive it through an alpha REST API, a TypeScript SDK, an MCP package and a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json", "repo": "https://github.com/google-labs-code/jules-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-Goog-Api-Key` header. Keys are created by a person in Settings in the Jules web app, at most three at a time, shown once and revocable there, and publicly exposed keys are disabled automatically. Keys carry no scopes. The discovery document also lists Google OAuth with the broad cloud-platform scope. The Jules Tools CLI signs in with a Google account in the browser (`jules login`). Repository sources need the Jules GitHub app installed through the web app.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks. Jules in Pro (100 a day, 15 concurrent) and Jules in Ultra (300 a day, 60 concurrent) come with the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, and the Google AI plans page lists AI Plus with expanded Jules limits (jules.google/docs/usage-limits and one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans, checked 2026-10-18). Paid plans are for personal @gmail.com accounts, with an interest form for business users. The plan prices render per locale and weren't read. No per-task or per-call price.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Jules docs, the API reference, the discovery document or the plans pages (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1269, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://jules.google/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://jules.google/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "cloud-agent", "closed-source", "api-key", "alpha", "llms-txt", "mcp", "no-status-page", "stale-release", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1000, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 35, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 44 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.", "bestFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "strengths": [ "Public discovery document for jules.googleapis.com v1alpha with 13 methods, typed schemas, enums and required fields, revision 20261015", "Only `prompt` is required to create a session. A session without `sourceContext` runs repoless in a fresh cloud VM", "Activities record plans, messages, bash commands with exit codes and git patches, and can be filtered by `create_time` to fetch only new events", "Four ways in for an outside agent, the REST API, the Apache-2.0 TypeScript SDK, an 8-tool stdio MCP server and the Jules Tools CLI", "Free plan of 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks with a Google account, and docs served as Markdown with an llms.txt index" ], "weaknesses": [ "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change", "Newest changelog entry is 9 March 2026, the CLI's last npm release 0.1.42 was on 16 December 2025, and the SDK and MCP packages last published 0.2.0 on 9 March 2026", "No status page, no request rate figures, no Retry-After guidance and no idempotency key on session creation were found", "API sessions auto-approve their plans unless `requirePlanApproval` is true, and the MCP server defaults to an automated run that opens a pull request", "A person must sign in with Google, install the Jules GitHub app and create the key in the web app. Keys carry no scopes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review", "Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another", "Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written", "Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty", "Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 62 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @google/jules # Jules Tools CLI, then: jules login", "http": "curl 'https://jules.googleapis.com/v1alpha/sessions' -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-goog-api-key: $JULES_API_KEY\" -d '{\"prompt\": \"Add a test for parseQueryString in utils.js\", \"sourceContext\": {\"source\": \"sources/github/OWNER/REPO\", \"githubRepoContext\": {\"startingBranch\": \"main\"}}, \"requirePlanApproval\": true}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jules": { "args": [ "@google/jules-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "JULES_API_KEY": "\u003capi-key\u003e" } } } }, "headless": { "run": "jules remote new --repo . --session \"write unit tests\"" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jules" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "jules.google", "domainRegistered": "2025-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://policies.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The jules.google footer links the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Jules privacy notice at jules.google.com/legal answered 'Jules is not yet available in your region' to our request and wasn't read.", "jules.google returns 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. www.google.com has a valid security.txt (expires 2030-04-01) pointing to g.co/vulnz and the Google VRP.", "The API answers at jules.googleapis.com, Google's API domain. RDAP for jules.google gives a registration date of 2025-01-16.", "No status page for Jules was found." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.json", "live": { "slug": "jules", "pages": [ { "url": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:10.654949702Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6add211f604a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:10.654949702Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cursor", "b": "Google LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or 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 the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-28", "b": "2026-03-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "2026-07-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.3k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1.5/5 (2)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Jules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or Jules?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 27 against 13", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 18", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 44" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 39", "Agent ergonomics, 64 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 46", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.5 out of 5", "No incidents deducted, where Cursor CLI loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "slug": "jules", "watchFor": "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change" } ], "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-jules.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules" }, { "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-jules.json", "title": "Aider vs Jules", "url": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules.json", "title": "Crush vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-devin.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Devin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-devin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-droid-cli.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Droid CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-droid-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Pi", "url": "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-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-jules.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules.json", "title": "Devin vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules.json", "title": "Pi vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules.json", "title": "goose vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness² vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie.json", "title": "Jules vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Jules vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp.json", "title": "Jules vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Jules vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Jules vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 14, "cursor-cli": 27, "edge": "cursor-cli", "jules": 13, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 37, "cursor-cli": 39, "edge": "jules", "jules": 76, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 22, "cursor-cli": 42, "edge": "jules", "jules": 64, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 11, "cursor-cli": 46, "edge": "jules", "jules": 57, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "cursor-cli": 25, "edge": "jules", "jules": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 44, "cursor-cli": 62, "edge": "cursor-cli", "jules": 18, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "cursor-cli": 59, "edge": "cursor-cli", "jules": 44, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Jules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance \u0026 community 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.", "jules": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.min.md" }, "markdown": "Jules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance \u0026 community 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- Jules: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #1000 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.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- Reliability, 27 against 13\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 18\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 44\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No CLI changelog, and versions are dates\n\n### Jules (E)\n\nGood for: A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 39\n- Agent ergonomics, 64 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.5 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Cursor CLI loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cursor CLI | Jules | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 13 | Cursor CLI +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 76 | Jules +37 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 64 | Jules +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 57 | Jules +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | Jules +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 18 | Cursor CLI +44 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 44 | Cursor CLI +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **35.3 · F** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cursor CLI | Jules |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cursor | Google LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or 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 the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-03-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-07-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 1.3k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (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**Jules.** The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.\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### Jules\n\n1. Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review\n2. Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another\n3. Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written\n4. Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty\n5. Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or Jules?\n\nJules scores 44.5 (E) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on reliability, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cursor-cli\", \"b\": \"jules\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cursor-cli jules`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cursor-cli.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cursor CLI or Jules\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules.md)\n- [Aider vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.md)\n- [Amp vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Amp vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs Cursor 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