Cursor CLI officially released: making AI programming assistant ubiquitous

"Now you can use AI to help write, review, and refactor code — all from your terminal."

🚀 What Is Cursor CLI?

Cursor CLI is a new command-line interface by the team behind Cursor, the AI-powered IDE based on VS Code. The CLI brings the power of Cursor’s Agent directly to your terminal.

You can now use AI to:

• Find and fix bugs
• Refactor legacy code
• Review changes for security or performance
• Automate repetitive dev tasks
• Run AI agents in CI/CD pipelines or cron jobs

All without leaving your shell.

🧠 Why Use an AI CLI?

Modern developers are building across multiple environments:

• Headless servers
• Remote development containers
• Terminal-first workflows (e.g., Neovim, tmux, SSH)
• Automated pipelines

Until now, AI coding tools were stuck inside GUI editors. Cursor CLI removes that barrier, making AI a programmable, scriptable, and automatable part of your dev stack.

🔧 How to Install

Installing Cursor CLI takes just one line:

curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash