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Cursor is an AI-first code editor made by Anysphere, Inc. It started as a fork-style editor with AI completion and chat and now centers on agents that run locally or in the cloud; it is one of the most-used alternatives to Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot.

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Developers · ExplainerCursor Agent SDK explained: agents as a folder of code, no separate price, and how it differs from the Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI's Agents SDKCursor's Agent SDK, generally available since October 20, 2026, lets teams define an agent as a folder of Markdown and TypeScript, test it with evals and deploy it to Cursor or their own servers. Cursor publishes no separate price for it. Here's what it is, what it costs, and how it compares with the Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI's Agents SDK.·8 min readDevelopers · NewsCursor Computer Use: Cursor's agent can now drive desktop apps and the iOS SimulatorCursor Computer Use, announced October 23, 2026, lets Cursor's agents click and type in desktop apps such as the iOS Simulator to test what they build. What Cursor has confirmed, what its docs say about permissions, and what it hasn't said yet.·5 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.·4 min readDevelopers · NewsCursor's latest release puts your local agents on your iPhoneRemote control for local agents arrived on October 6, capping a month of agent-management features in Cursor. What's new, what it costs, and what's unclear.·6 min readAgents · BenchmarksSWE-bench, Terminal-Bench and METR: what coding-agent evaluations measure, and what their results don't proveOpenAI dropped SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench is on version 4.0, and METR can't yet pin down AI's effect on developer speed. What published evaluations show, and their limits.·8 min readAgents · CompareClaude Code vs Codex vs Cursor: features, prices and limits compared (October 2026)All three now run in the terminal, the IDE and the cloud. The real differences are how they meter usage, how they sandbox commands, and which models you get. Verified against official pages.·Checked Oct 9Developers · GuideHow to write a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md file that coding agents actually followWhere each agent looks for its instructions, how long the file should be, what to put in it, and how to check the agent is reading it, from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Copilot docs.·10 min readDevelopers · ExplainerMCP resources vs tools vs prompts: who decides, and when to use eachMCP servers expose three primitives with three different owners: the model, the app and the user. Here's how each works on the wire in the 2026-07-28 spec, plus what happened to sampling, roots and elicitation.·6 min read

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