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Cursor

An AI code editor that writes, edits and explains code across a whole project.

Made by
Anysphere
Category
Coding
Last change
Oct 16, 2026
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Changelog

October 2026

  1. New feature

    Cursor released the Environments API in beta, letting developers create and manage cloud agent environments in code, including cloned repos and setup.

  2. New feature

    Cursor cloud agents can now build interactive canvases, such as dashboards and reports, which you can share with your team as a link.

  3. New model

    Cursor added Muse Wonder from Meta Superintelligence Labs, priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.

  4. New feature

    Cursor opened its marketplace to public submissions, so any team making developer tools can now publish an app.

  5. New feature

    Cursor's code hosting platform Origin now supports over 20 integrations for CI, deployments, code review, security, monitoring and project management.

  6. New model

    Cursor added Gemini 4 Argon, which scores 52.8% on CursorBench and costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output.

  7. Pricing

    Cursor is now part of The X Subscription, with shared usage across Grok products, and third-party models in Cursor move to API pricing on new plans.

  8. Pricing

    Cursor lowered Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache read pricing to $0.10 per million tokens, down from $0.20.

  9. New model

    Cursor added Claude Haiku 5.5, which costs 10x less than Claude Haiku 4.5 on shorter requests and is enabled in Settings.

  10. New feature

    Cursor now lets you control agents running on your computer from your phone, using the new Cursor iOS app to check in, reply or start tasks.

  11. New feature

    Cursor SDK background subagents now report back, returning results to the parent run as a follow-up turn until every subagent finishes.

  12. New feature

    Cursor SDK custom tools can now carry MCP annotations such as readOnlyHint and destructiveHint, so the model can tell a lookup from a delete.

  13. New feature

    Cursor SDK agents can now be steered while they run, using run.steer() to add a message to the next turn.

  14. New feature

    Cursor SDK users can now replace Cursor's system prompt with their own, with rules, skills and tool schemas still loading, enabled account by account.

  15. New feature

    Cursor Rollouts now finds the pull request behind a regression and opens an issue, and one click starts a cloud agent to fix it.

  16. New model

    Cursor added GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash, with GLM 5.3 Max the best-scoring open-weight model on CursorBench 4.0.

September 2026

  1. New feature

    Cursor can now build charts and diagrams in chat with /visualize, available in the Agents Window.

  2. New model

    Cursor added Claude Sonnet 5.5, which performs on par with Opus in many tasks.

  3. New feature

    Cursor reduced token costs by 7% with no drop in agent quality, through tighter prompts, selective tool loading, better caching and compressed file reads.

  4. New feature

    Cursor updated Security Reviewer, which now finishes 21% faster, averaging 3.8 minutes instead of 4.8, for Teams and Enterprise plans.

  5. Launch

    Cursor launched Rollouts, which write a monitoring plan and watch changes as they deploy so regressions are caught before users see them.

  6. New model

    Cursor added Claude Opus 5.5, the top model on CursorBench at 57.8% (Max), costing 40% less per task than Opus 5.

  7. Launch

    Cursor introduced Projects in beta, where you work with a coordinator agent in one persistent thread that manages subagents.

  8. New model

    Cursor added Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta as an available model.

  9. New model

    Cursor added Gemini 3.8 Flash as an available model.

  10. New feature

    Cursor cloud agents can now run on your own infrastructure, including machine pools that scale automatically, while the agent loop stays in Cursor.

  11. New model

    Cursor added Claude Fable 5.1, which scores 73.4% on CursorBench 3.2 at max effort and is strong at verifying its own work.

August 2026

  1. New feature

    Cursor now lets you create new web apps, store the code with Origin and deploy to Vercel.

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