{ "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": "mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "mini-swe-agent", "name": "mini-swe-agent", "vendor": "SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford)", "vendorUrl": "https://mini-swe-agent.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Minimal open-source coding agent from the Princeton and Stanford team behind SWE-bench, shipped as the `mini` CLI and a Python library. It gives the model one bash tool, works with any model through LiteLLM, and is a common SWE-bench baseline.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mini-swe-agent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mini-swe-agent" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account of its own. A model key goes in an environment variable or the global `.env` file that `mini-extra config setup` writes, and is passed to the provider through LiteLLM, OpenRouter, Portkey or Requesty. Local models work through LiteLLM's `api_base`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy. The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model. Each run stops at a $3 cost limit by default, and a local model needs `MSWEA_COST_TRACKING=ignore_errors`.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 8600, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 4437981, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://mini-swe-agent.com/latest/", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness" ], "tags": [ "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "open-source", "python", "free", "no-card", "local", "docker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-23", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 698, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 49, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 58, "security": 56, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-10. CVE-2026-108592 (CVSS 4.0 score 6.0, from VulnCheck). The bubblewrap environment builds its `bwrap` command without `--clearenv` or `--unshare-net`, so commands inherit the host environment, model keys included, and can send them out over the network after a prompt injection in task content. Confirmed in src/minisweagent/environments/extra/bubblewrap.py at 2.4.6 and on main (3 September). The environment is opt-in and marked experimental, but it's the documented lightweight sandbox and no release fixes it, -4. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108592" ], "verdict": "A small, readable harness with one bash tool, a linear trajectory saved as JSON, and step, cost and wall-time limits that stop unattended runs cleanly. The default local environment has no isolation, the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passes host API keys through (CVE-2026-108592, unfixed), and the only release in 90 days was 2.4.6 on 23 July 2026.", "bestFor": "Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness.", "strengths": [ "MIT, with an agent class of about 190 lines that a reviewer can read in one sitting", "Step, cost ($3 by default) and wall-time limits, each ending the run with its own exit status in the trajectory", "Any model through LiteLLM, OpenRouter, Portkey or Requesty, local ones included, with no account", "Docker, Podman and Singularity environments, where the Docker one forwards no host variables unless listed", "No telemetry found in the source" ], "weaknesses": [ "The default local environment runs commands on the host with no isolation and the full host environment", "CVE-2026-108592, published 10 October 2026, leaves the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passing host API keys and network through, unfixed in 2.4.6", "One release in the 90 days to 18 October 2026, and three commits on main since 23 July", "No MCP client, no ACP and no server mode", "No changelog file, and the PyPI classifier still says 3 - Alpha at 2.4.6" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run with `-y --exit-immediately` for unattended use. Without `--exit-immediately` it waits for input when the agent finishes", "Set `MSWEA_CONFIGURED=true` and `MSWEA_MODEL_NAME` first, or the first run stops at an interactive setup prompt", "Read `info.exit_status` in the `-o` trajectory file. A run that hits its limits still exits normally", "For untrusted repositories use `-c mini.yaml -c environment.environment_class=docker -c environment.image=\u003cimage\u003e`. The local and bubblewrap environments both expose host variables", "Strip model keys from the environment commands see, since the local environment passes every host variable to each command" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 49, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 58, "security": 56, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 40 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install mini-swe-agent # or: uvx mini-swe-agent", "headless": { "command": "mini -t \"$TASK\" -y --exit-immediately -m \u003cprovider/model\u003e -l 3 -o run.traj.json", "env": { "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e", "MSWEA_CONFIGURED": "true" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mini-swe-agent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "No legal entity named. The MIT licence names Kilian A. Lieret and Carlos E. Jimenez", "domain": "mini-swe-agent.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The docs site is GitHub Pages built from the repository. It has no terms, privacy policy or security.txt (/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 18 October 2026).", "The security page names four contacts at Princeton and Stanford by email, with no response time.", "The repository has no changelog file and tags carry only a version bump. Release notes, if any, are on GitHub releases, which we couldn't read because GitHub's web pages refused this run." ], "score": 40 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cursor", "b": "SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "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": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-28", "b": "2026-07-23", "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": "8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1.5/5 (2)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or mini-swe-agent?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. mini-swe-agent is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Cursor CLI and mini-swe-agent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 49", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 51" ], "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, 70 against 27", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 58 against 39", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 46", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.5 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness.", "slug": "mini-swe-agent", "watchFor": "The default local environment runs commands on the host with no isolation and the full host environment" } ], "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-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "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-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Aider vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "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-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Amp vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "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-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": 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"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-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": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "goose vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Harness² vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "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/junie-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-opencode.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-openhands.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-warp.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-warp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 43, "cursor-cli": 27, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "reliability", "mini-swe-agent": 70, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "cursor-cli": 39, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "schema", "mini-swe-agent": 58, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "cursor-cli": 42, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "ergonomics", "mini-swe-agent": 69, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "cursor-cli": 46, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "security", "mini-swe-agent": 56, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "cursor-cli": 25, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "payments", "mini-swe-agent": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "cursor-cli": 62, "edge": "cursor-cli", "key": "maintenance", "mini-swe-agent": 49, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "cursor-cli": 59, "edge": "cursor-cli", "key": "transparency", "mini-swe-agent": 51, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on 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.", "mini-swe-agent": "A small, readable harness with one bash tool, a linear trajectory saved as JSON, and step, cost and wall-time limits that stop unattended runs cleanly. The default local environment has no isolation, the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passes host API keys through (CVE-2026-108592, unfixed), and the only release in 90 days was 2.4.6 on 23 July 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on 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- mini-swe-agent: grade C, 56.7/100, rank #698 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mini-swe-agent.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- Maintenance \u0026 community, 62 against 49\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 51\n\nWatch for: No CLI changelog, and versions are dates\n\n### mini-swe-agent (C)\n\nGood for: Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 58 against 39\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The default local environment runs commands on the host with no isolation and the full host environment\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cursor CLI | mini-swe-agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 70 | mini-swe-agent +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 58 | mini-swe-agent +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 69 | mini-swe-agent +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 56 | mini-swe-agent +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | mini-swe-agent +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 49 | Cursor CLI +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 51 | Cursor CLI +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **35.3 · F** | **56.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cursor CLI | mini-swe-agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cursor | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\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 | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-07-23 |\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 | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/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**mini-swe-agent.** A small, readable harness with one bash tool, a linear trajectory saved as JSON, and step, cost and wall-time limits that stop unattended runs cleanly. The default local environment has no isolation, the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passes host API keys through (CVE-2026-108592, unfixed), and the only release in 90 days was 2.4.6 on 23 July 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### mini-swe-agent\n\n1. Run with `-y --exit-immediately` for unattended use. Without `--exit-immediately` it waits for input when the agent finishes\n2. Set `MSWEA_CONFIGURED=true` and `MSWEA_MODEL_NAME` first, or the first run stops at an interactive setup prompt\n3. Read `info.exit_status` in the `-o` trajectory file. A run that hits its limits still exits normally\n4. For untrusted repositories use `-c mini.yaml -c environment.environment_class=docker -c environment.image=\u003cimage\u003e`. The local and bubblewrap environments both expose host variables\n5. Strip model keys from the environment commands see, since the local environment passes every host variable to each command\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or mini-swe-agent?\n\nmini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cursor CLI leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Cursor CLI and mini-swe-agent open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. mini-swe-agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mini-swe-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cursor-cli\", \"b\": \"mini-swe-agent\"}`. 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