[HN Gopher] Cursor CLI
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Cursor CLI
Author : gonzalovargas
Score : 112 points
Date : 2025-08-07 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| unsupp0rted wrote:
| What's the benefit of this compared to the IDE? To be more like
| Claude Code?
| sblawrie wrote:
| You can spin up the Cursor CLI inside the terminal of your IDE
| of choice and not be tethered to Claude's models.
| zaphirplane wrote:
| Is there a better agent than the anthropic one
| jstummbillig wrote:
| I am so curious to know. Why is Cursor not just putting
| whatever this supposedly does better into... Cursor?
| jonplackett wrote:
| To compete with Claude code
| jstummbillig wrote:
| They are competing with Claude Code already. The
| competition is not over who can built the nicest CLI.
| anthonypasq wrote:
| i dont think it actually does anything better than the chat
| window in the editor. its strictly worse tbh. it just lets
| you not be tied to a VSCode interface for editing.im sure
| Jetbrains diehards would very much appreciate this, but
| honestly i will find it hard to utilize given the fact
| Cursor's tab auto-complete is so amazing.
| bangaladore wrote:
| Many of these companies are realizing that mainline VSCode is a
| moat of sorts. I and many people I know won't use any of these
| that require forking VSCode.
|
| With the benefit that you can also pull in people who don't
| like using VSCode such as people who use Jetbrains or terminal
| based code editors.
| gorjusborg wrote:
| Flip your thinking around for a second and consider why an IDE
| is required for an agent that codes for you?
|
| The IDE/editor is for me, the agent doesn't need it. That also
| means I am not forced to used whatever imperfect forked IDE the
| agent is implemented against.
| worldsayshi wrote:
| > why an IDE is required for an agent that codes for you
|
| Because the agents aren't yet good enough for a hands off
| experience. You have to continuously monitor what it does if
| you want a passable code base.
| tsvetkov wrote:
| Sure, but monitoring, reviewing and steering does not
| really require modern IDEs in their current form. Also, I'm
| sure agents can benefit from parts of IDE functionality
| (navigation, static analysis, integration with build tools,
| codebase indexing, ...), but they sure don't need the UI.
| And without UI those parts can become simpler, more
| composable and more portable (being compatible with
| multiple agent tools). IMO another way to think about CLI
| agentic coding tools as of new form of IDEs.
| stavros wrote:
| I don't really need an IDE, but I do need a great code review
| interface.
| Xenoamorphous wrote:
| As someone who hasn't used Claude Code yet, can't you
| configure it somehow to use a different tool of your
| liking, or it has to be in the cli?
| phren0logy wrote:
| Holy moly. I did not see that coming, but it makes sense. I'm
| enjoying the terminal-based coding agents way more than I ever
| would have expected. I can keep one spinning in the background
| while I do #dayjob, and as a bonus I feel like a haX0r.
|
| 2025 is the year of the terminal, apparently?
|
| For my prototype purposes, it's great, and Claude code the most
| fun I've had with tech in a jillion years.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| That's funny. I was really hoping that Anthropic would make a
| "Claude GUI".
| consumer451 wrote:
| In one of their Claude Code talks they said it didn't seem
| worth it, given their expectation that all IDEs will become
| obsolete by next year.
| amclennon wrote:
| At this point, there are more AI coding agents announced every
| week than Javascript frameworks, but to be honest, I'm here for
| it.
| wilg wrote:
| Think how many JavaScript frameworks can be vibe coded now!
| kylecordes wrote:
| (This is an exaggeration:)
|
| Sure, you can have your LLM code with any JavaScript
| framework you want, as long as you don't mind it randomly
| dropping React code and React-isms in the middle of your app.
| throwup238 wrote:
| It's not a real JS framework without JSX support and
| Typescript types that generate page long errors.
| stavros wrote:
| Why would we create a framework to make coding easier when
| nobody writes code by hand any more?
| tayo42 wrote:
| Make one that's optimal for Ai somehow
| fullstackwife wrote:
| The concept of JS framework which allows you to rapidly
| develop an app has the same underlying vibe as coding agent
| asadm wrote:
| seems pretty basic. I don't see anything unique here. I am happy
| with my Gemini CLI.
| twapi wrote:
| Claude Code finally has a serious competitor.
| asdfologist wrote:
| Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI +
| GPT-5
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mk8ks5/discussion_...
| afro88 wrote:
| Claude Code but can use GPT-5 built in. Not a bad selling point
| huydotnet wrote:
| and access to Cursor's background agent on the web as well,
| like ChatGPT Codex. So to this point, I'm regret cancelling my
| Cursor subscription already
| jameskraus wrote:
| I wonder if this will support directly interfacing with OpenAI's
| APIs vs. going through Cursor's APIs (and billing).
| joshmlewis wrote:
| I would highly doubt it. Even when you BYOK inside of Cursor
| they still say it's routed through their servers.
| blitzar wrote:
| Pivot to CLI
| cpursley wrote:
| There are certainly some lessons here that go beyond coding
| agents (when it comes to shipping products).
| htrp wrote:
| They are all clones of gemini cli at this point?
| hollerith wrote:
| Since Gemini CLI was released under the Apache license, a clone
| is easy to make.
| alessandrorubio wrote:
| Wouldn't be better to just use the Warp AI solution at this
| point?
| buremba wrote:
| Only if it would work. I think they miss a big opportunity here
| by (1) not caring about security at all, (2) trying to develop
| their own model and only make it available in the cloud.
| risho wrote:
| is there a way to get it to display more information? its stuck
| not doing anything and i cant tell if that's because it timed out
| or it is running a script or it is thinking or what is even
| happening. sometimes it just does things without even giving any
| feedback at all. i dont know what it is thinking or what it is
| trying to do and i cant really see the output of the terminal
| commands it is running. it just pauses every once in a while and
| asks to run a command.
|
| is there a way to make it more verbose?
| joshmlewis wrote:
| I noticed it was taking awhile on the first large-ish task I
| gave it. I'm assuming it was just a bit overloaded at the
| moment.
| thehamkercat wrote:
| I wonder when all of them will adopt AGENT.md and stop using
| gemini.md/claude.md/crush.md/summary.md/qwen.md
|
| https://agent.md [redirect -> https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md]
| https://agent-rules.org
| js2 wrote:
| That's a more obvious (but less fun) name than what I've been
| using: ROBOTS.md with symlinks.
| thehamkercat wrote:
| https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md#migration
|
| they also suggest using symlinks for now
| sneak wrote:
| When they stop getting desperate for differentiation by
| spamming their brand advertising in your repo against your
| will.
|
| Claude Code likes to add "attribution" in commit messages,
| which is just pure spam.
| striking wrote:
| You can turn it off:
| https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-
| code/settings#avai... `includeCoAuthoredBy: false`
| prmph wrote:
| Yep, that's a peeve of mine. I've resorted to using AGENT.md,
| and aliasing Claude, Gemini, etc to a command that calls them
| with an initial instruction to read that file. But of course
| they will forget after some time.
|
| The whole agentic coding via CLI experience could be much
| improved by:
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| - Making it easy to see what command I last issued, without
| having to scroll up through reams of output hunting for context
| - Making it easy to spin up a proper sandbox to run sessions
| unattended - Etc.
|
| Maybe for code generation, what we actually need is a code
| generator that is itself deterministic but uses AI, instead of
| AI that does code generation.
| tsvetkov wrote:
| Fascinating to see how agents are redefining what IDEs are. This
| was not really the case in the chat AI era. But as autonomy
| increases, the traditional IDE UI becomes less important form of
| interaction. I think those CLI tools have pretty good chance to
| create a new dev tools ecosystem. Creating a full featured
| language plugin (let alone a full IDE) for VSCode or Intellij is
| not for a faint-hearted, and cross IDE portability is limited.
| CLI tools + MCP can be a lot simpler, more composable and more
| portable.
| macawfish wrote:
| Hopefully this one is as good as Claude code. None of them that
| I've tried have come close yet.
| cheema33 wrote:
| My first thought was, "meh, I already have Claude Code". But then
| I remembered my primary frustration with Claude Code. I need
| other LLMs to be able to validate Claude Code's assumptions and
| work. I need to do this in an automated way. Before Cursor CLI, I
| did not have a way to programmatically ask Cursor do this. It was
| very manual, very painful. But, now I can create a Claude Code
| agent that is a "cursor-specialist" that uses cursor cli to do
| all of that in an automated way.
| good8675309 wrote:
| Interesting, are you saying you would setup a Stop Hook in
| Claude Code that calls the Cursor CLI to have it validate and
| prompt Claude Code with further instructions?
| thornewolf wrote:
| They realized that CLI is the much better interface for these
| kinds of tasks.
| lherron wrote:
| With all the frontier labs competing in this space now, and them
| letting you use your consumer subscription through the CLI, I
| don't understand how the Cursor products will survive. Why pay an
| extra $X/mo when I can get this functionality included in the
| $Y/mo I'm already paying OAI/Anthropic/GOOG?
| impulser_ wrote:
| Because you can always use the best model. Yesterday is was
| Claude Opus 4.1, today it's GPT-5. If you just were paying
| Anthropic you will be stuck with Claude.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| I'm glad they support "Jetbrains", "Android Studio", _and_
| "IntelliJ"
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