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      "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"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:03.979272924Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Mistral Vibe CLI scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "mistral-vibe-cli",
      "name": "Mistral Vibe CLI",
      "vendor": "Mistral AI",
      "vendorUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/install-setup",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Mistral AI's open-source terminal coding agent. It runs Mistral's hosted models or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, headless with `vibe -p` and in editors through `vibe-acp`. This listing covers the CLI, not Mistral's Vibe chat app.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "mistral-vibe"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Browser sign-in with a Mistral account, or a Mistral API key in `MISTRAL_API_KEY` or `~/.vibe/.env`, created under Code, Vibe CLI in the Mistral console. The same key works on the Free plan, a paid plan or pay-as-you-go. A local OpenAI-compatible server needs no Mistral account. MCP servers take static headers or OAuth.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The CLI is free under Apache-2.0. Hosted models come with a Mistral plan or an API key. Free has limited coding sessions, Pro is $14.99 a month and Team $24.99 a user a month, Enterprise by quote, with pay-as-you-go at API rates past a plan's limit. The default model, Mistral Medium 3.5, is $1.5 per million input tokens and $7.5 per million output tokens on the API. A local model costs nothing (checked 2026-10-18).",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the CLI docs or the source (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 5100,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": 331757,
        "asOf": "2026-10-18"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/install-setup",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "open-source",
        "python",
        "mcp",
        "acp",
        "llms-txt",
        "telemetry-default-on",
        "no-sandbox",
        "subagents",
        "hooks",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "local"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-09",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 457,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
        "categoryRank": 10,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 84,
          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 79
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-18"
        },
        "negative": -8,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-12. CVE-2026-87983 to CVE-2026-87988 (advisory MAI-2026-003, severity High, published 14 September 2026). Crafted shell commands could run without the approval prompt, reading or writing files outside the workspace or running code, and injected instructions could trigger them. HiddenLayer published the CVEs on 11 September and Mistral released 2.25.4 the next day. Fixed and published inside six months, so 2 points for each high, as nanobot's and zeroclaw's fixed advisories were weighed. Six highs come to 12, held at the -6 cap for fixed and published advisories that claude-code and the Claude Agent SDK listing use (research/new/NOTES-harnesses-H1.md, negative events). Paperclip's -10 adds -5 for its group of ten fixed advisories and separate lines for advisories with no patched version, which doesn't apply here (https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/security-advisories/MAI-2026-003). -6",
          "2026-10-18. The offline guide says that with `enable_telemetry = false` and `enable_auto_update = false` the CLI contacts no external service, and the configuration reference describes `enable_auto_update` as installing releases in the background. The 2.26.1 source has no such key. It reads `enable_update_checks`, which stays on, and the README says interactive sessions then query PyPI or uv once a day. We followed ironclaw's precedent, not zeroclaw's, because this is the vendor's documentation contradicting the shipped release on what leaves the machine, where zeroclaw's was a site-versus-docs mismatch. The safety page's line that `-p` falls back to `auto-approve` is also wrong, but it errs towards caution, so it stays a weakness with no deduction. A misleading claim, at the minimum, -2 (https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/offline-models; https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/configuration-reference; https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe#update-settings). -2"
        ],
        "verdict": "Apache-2.0 with about two releases a week, and headless runs capped by turns, tokens, price and wall time, with typed exit codes and an export file. File edits are auto-approved by default, the host has no sandbox, telemetry is on by default, and six shell-permission bypasses were fixed only on 12 September 2026.",
        "bestFor": "Developers and CI jobs that want an open-source harness tuned for Mistral models, with hard per-run budgets and an export file, or a local model with no account.",
        "strengths": [
          "Apache-2.0, on PyPI and Homebrew at 2.26.1, with 20 PyPI releases in the 90 days to 18 October 2026",
          "`vibe -p` stops on `--max-turns`, `--max-tokens`, `--max-price` or `--time-limit`, with exit codes 0 to 4 and an `export.json` naming the outcome",
          "Runs against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with a llama.cpp provider on 127.0.0.1:8080 in the defaults and a documented offline set-up",
          "Project `.vibe/` config, hooks, MCP servers and `AGENTS.md` load only from trusted folders, and `-p` runs never trust a folder without `--trust`",
          "`vibe-acp` is in the ACP registry at 2.26.1, with prebuilt binaries for macOS and Linux"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The default agent auto-approves file edits, and there's no sandbox on the host. Isolation needs the experimental `--agent-socket` server or a container",
          "Six high-severity shell-permission bypasses (CVE-2026-87983 to CVE-2026-87988) were fixed in 2.25.4 on 12 September 2026, a day after HiddenLayer published them",
          "Telemetry is on by default, and the server-side experiments it enables can switch the default agent to the `smart-approve` classifier",
          "The docs disagree with the code. The safety page says `-p` falls back to auto-approve, and the offline guide names an `enable_auto_update` key the source doesn't define",
          "The repository takes no outside contributions, and its history is squashed release commits"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Pass `--agent` on every `-p` run (`plan` is read-only). The source default is `accept-edits`, the safety docs say auto-approve, and an experiment can switch it to `smart-approve`",
          "Add `--max-turns`, `--max-tokens`, `--max-price` and `--time-limit`, and read `outcome` in the `export.json` that `--output-dir` writes. Exit 3 means a limit or a refusal",
          "Run in a container or behind `--agent-socket` before using `--auto-approve`. Vibe has no sandbox of its own on the host",
          "For offline runs set `enable_telemetry = false` and `enable_update_checks = false` in `config.toml`. The docs' `enable_auto_update` isn't the key the code reads",
          "Use 2.25.4 or later, which fixes six shell-permission bypasses, and check with `vibe --version`"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3.3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 84,
          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 68
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "uv tool install mistral-vibe   # or: curl -LsSf https://mistral.ai/vibe/install.sh | bash",
        "headless": {
          "command": "vibe --prompt-file task.md --agent accept-edits --output json --max-turns 30 --max-price 1.0 --time-limit 1800 --output-dir out/",
          "env": {
            "MISTRAL_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e"
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/mistral-vibe-cli"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "mistral-api",
        "mistral-embeddings",
        "mistral-moderation",
        "mistral-voxtral-transcribe",
        "mistral-ocr"
      ],
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Mistral AI (RCS Paris 952 418 325)",
        "domain": "mistral.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-05-15",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.mistral.ai",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-18",
        "notes": [
          "security.txt read on 2026-10-18, a Mistral security contact, Expires 2027-05-05, Policy a HackerOne submission form. SECURITY.md in the repository points to the same contact and programme",
          "Privacy policy effective 3 September 2026 and commercial terms effective 25 September 2026, both read on 2026-10-18. Both name Vibe among the Mistral AI products they cover",
          "The legal entity and domain date are carried from the mistral-api listing's 17 October check",
          "status.mistral.ai covers the hosted API, answered with a bot check on 17 October per the mistral-api listing and wasn't read again. It doesn't cover the local CLI"
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "mistral-vibe-cli",
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/CHANGELOG.md",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:38:01.660508599Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "719b8d0af267"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:38:01.660508599Z"
      }
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Cursor",
        "b": "Mistral AI",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "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": "Apache-2.0",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-28",
        "b": "2026-10-09",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-03",
        "b": "2026-09-25",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-29",
        "b": "2026-09-03",
        "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": "yes",
        "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": "5.1k stars, 332k PyPI/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "1.5/5 (2)",
        "b": "3.3/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Mistral Vibe CLI scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or Mistral Vibe CLI?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. Mistral Vibe CLI is open source (Apache-2.0).",
        "question": "Are Cursor CLI and Mistral Vibe CLI open source?"
      }
    ],
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      {
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  "markdown": "Mistral Vibe CLI scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. 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- Mistral Vibe CLI: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #457 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.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\nWatch for: No CLI changelog, and versions are dates\n\n### Mistral Vibe CLI (B)\n\nGood for: Developers and CI jobs that want an open-source harness tuned for Mistral models, with hard per-run budgets and an export file, or a local model with no account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 69 against 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 39\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 1.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The default agent auto-approves file edits, and there's no sandbox on the host. Isolation needs the experimental `--agent-socket` server or a container\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cursor CLI | Mistral Vibe CLI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 69 | Mistral Vibe CLI +42 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 39 | 76 | Mistral Vibe CLI +37 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 84 | Mistral Vibe CLI +42 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 58 | Mistral Vibe CLI +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Mistral Vibe CLI +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 75 | Mistral Vibe CLI +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 79 | Mistral Vibe CLI +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -8 | |\n| **Total** | | **35.3 · F** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cursor CLI | Mistral Vibe CLI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cursor | Mistral AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\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 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-03 |\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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 5.1k stars, 332k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (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**Mistral Vibe CLI.** Apache-2.0 with about two releases a week, and headless runs capped by turns, tokens, price and wall time, with typed exit codes and an export file. File edits are auto-approved by default, the host has no sandbox, telemetry is on by default, and six shell-permission bypasses were fixed only on 12 September 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### Mistral Vibe CLI\n\n1. Pass `--agent` on every `-p` run (`plan` is read-only). The source default is `accept-edits`, the safety docs say auto-approve, and an experiment can switch it to `smart-approve`\n2. Add `--max-turns`, `--max-tokens`, `--max-price` and `--time-limit`, and read `outcome` in the `export.json` that `--output-dir` writes. Exit 3 means a limit or a refusal\n3. Run in a container or behind `--agent-socket` before using `--auto-approve`. Vibe has no sandbox of its own on the host\n4. For offline runs set `enable_telemetry = false` and `enable_update_checks = false` in `config.toml`. The docs' `enable_auto_update` isn't the key the code reads\n5. Use 2.25.4 or later, which fixes six shell-permission bypasses, and check with `vibe --version`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cursor CLI or Mistral Vibe CLI?\n\nMistral Vibe CLI scores 62.9 (B) on agent readiness against Cursor CLI's 35.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Cursor CLI and Mistral Vibe CLI open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Cursor CLI. Mistral Vibe CLI is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cursor-cli\", \"b\": \"mistral-vibe-cli\"}`. 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