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Cursor

Cursor is an IDE (Fork) in the 2026 agents.dancingteeth catalog. Daily-driver AI IDE under The X Subscription: Composer 2.5 plus Grok 4.7, Grok Bot/cloud agents/Bugbot/Origin from Premium ($30/mo) up, tab completion, Design Mode, local/cloud agents, CLI/SDK, and an iOS companion to supervise runs.

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Daily-driver AI IDE under The X Subscription: Composer 2.5 plus Grok 4.7, Grok Bot/cloud agents/Bugbot/Origin from Premium ($30/mo) up, tab completion, Design Mode, local/cloud agents, CLI/SDK, and an iOS companion to supervise runs.

Skip if

You need heavy third-party models (Claude/GPT) inside the included pool, a $8 Grok-only Plus tier without cloud agents, strict local-only BYOK with no vendor models, or a GitHub replacement you can treat as source of truth today (Origin is early-beta hosting, not that).

Who it fits

  • Daily-driver AI IDE under The X Subscription: Composer 2.5 plus Grok 4.7, Grok Bot/cloud agents/Bugbot/Origin from Premium ($30/mo) up, tab completion, Design Mode, local/cloud agents, CLI/SDK, and an iOS companion to supervise runs.
  • People who prefer a dedicated desktop coding surface
  • Terminal-first engineers who live in the shell and git
  • Builders who start in the browser without a local IDE setup
  • Users who supervise or kick off agent runs from mobile
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Pros

In-house Cursor Models — Composer 2.5 (~10× cheaper than Opus for daily coding) plus Grok 4.7 (joint with SpaceXAI) for long-running in-IDE agents; Grok Bot, cloud agents, Bugbot reviews and Origin code hosting included from Premium ($30/mo) up; blazing tab completion with million-token context; Design Mode for quick frontend edits; local and cloud agent orchestration with automations and loops; CLI and SDK; official iOS app to start and supervise cloud agents on the go.

Cons

Since Oct 2026 new plans are part of The X Subscription: the included pool covers only Grok and Composer models; Claude, GPT and other third-party models get no allowance and bill at API list price from the first request (prepaid credit); weekly pool is shared with Grok chat, image/video and Grok Bot, so non-coding use eats coding usage; $8 Plus is Grok-only: no Auto, cloud agents, automations, Bugbot or third-party models; switching off a legacy plan is permanent — old Pro/Pro+/Ultra closed to new sign-ups; can be resource-heavy; iOS companion supervises agents — not a full mobile IDE.

Origin (git forge)

Cursor Origin is Cursor’s git forge — code hosting, pull requests, browse/search, and an origin CLI — not a tab inside the editor. It began rolling out 17 August 2026 as early beta on paid Cursor plans (Pro, Teams, Enterprise). Free accounts cannot store code there.

I mirrored GitHub repositories into Origin and did not switch remotes. That is the product’s own adoption path: GitHub stays the source of truth; Origin copies history, branches, tags, and pull requests; comments sync both ways within seconds; pushes on a mirrored repo still land on GitHub. Detach from GitHub only if you want Origin to own the remote.

Feature parity is not a reason to move. Origin does not bring GitHub Issues, GitHub Actions, or the marketplace. Depot and Buildkite can run existing Actions YAML, but only on Origin-hosted repos — not on GitHub mirrors. Cursor has not published retention, residency, or training-use terms for Origin; the host now sits under SpaceX / SpaceXAI. Treat a mirror as a convenience window until those terms exist and the beta has been through a few GitHub outage weeks.

The loop that actually gets closer to Cursor’s infra is cloud agents on a native Origin repo. Those VMs clone into Cursor’s fleet; GitHub HTTPS is no longer the middle of every clone/push, which matters when many agents hit one repo. Cloud agents already clone GitHub today — Origin is not required. Local Cursor agents already have the working tree on disk, so Origin vs GitHub does nothing for them. GitHub Actions minute caps and cancel-queues are a runner-billing problem; Origin does not fix them while the repo stays mirrored.

Cursor’s published Origin roadmap is one sentence: agent-native features ship soon. The June 2026 Compile pitch (Graphite stacked PRs, merge queues, machine-readable review for parallel agents) is the differentiator they are aiming at — not “we also have a PR tab.” Revisit a remote switch when that layer ships and Origin looks like boring infrastructure, not a research preview.

Origin docsOrigin changelogcursor.com/codebase

Grok Bot (teammate app)

Grok Bot is Cursor’s always-on teammate — desktop and mobile apps with its own cloud computer, routines, and a weekly usage pool metered on your Cursor account. It is not Grok 4.7 inside the editor; Composer 2.5 and Grok 4.7 remain the in-IDE Cursor Models for coding agents.

Access is included on every paid individual Cursor plan (Pro, Pro+, Ultra) and on self-serve Cursor Teams for all members — no separate Grok Bot subscription and no Premium seat required. Weekly included usage resets; extra work can continue on shared on-demand spend if enabled. Enterprise teams must enable access through their account executive.

A free trial is a usage credit (with a 7-day window), not a paid SKU. Individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy accounts can link for additional Grok Bot usage grants; SuperGrok Lite and team/enterprise SuperGrok tiers do not link.

Grok Bot plans

Facts

Locality:
Hybrid (local + cloud)
Surfaces:
Desktop, CLI, Web, Mobile
Maturity:
Preview / beta
Cloud agents:
Remote agent execution
Verified:
Oct 2026

Agent standards & memory

AGENTS.md: Full SupportSKILL.md: SupportedRules / memory: .cursor/rules (Project, User, and Team scopes); Persistent memory.Free: limited agent and Chat on Cursor models. Paid via The X Subscription: Plus $8 (Grok-only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200/mo, weekly pool shared with Grok. Teams $30/$100/$200 per seat. Third-party models extra at API price. Legacy plans continue for existing subscribers.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Cursor?

Cursor is an IDE (Fork) covered in the agents.dancingteeth 2026 catalog. In-house Cursor Models — Composer 2.

Who is Cursor best for?

Daily-driver AI IDE under The X Subscription: Composer 2.5 plus Grok 4.7, Grok Bot/cloud agents/Bugbot/Origin from Premium ($30/mo) up, tab completion, Design Mode, local/cloud agents, CLI/SDK, and an iOS companion to supervise runs.

When should I skip Cursor?

You need heavy third-party models (Claude/GPT) inside the included pool, a $8 Grok-only Plus tier without cloud agents, strict local-only BYOK with no vendor models, or a GitHub replacement you can treat as source of truth today (Origin is early-beta hosting, not that).

What are the main trade-offs of Cursor?

Pros: In-house Cursor Models — Composer 2. Cons: Since Oct 2026 new plans are part of The X Subscription: the included pool covers only Grok and Composer models; Claude, GPT and other third-party models get no allowance and bill at API list price from the first request (prepaid credit); weekly pool is shared with Grok chat, image/video and Grok Bot, so non-coding use eats coding usage; $8 Plus is Grok-only: no Auto, cloud agents, automations, Bugbot or third-party models; switching off a legacy plan is permanent — old Pro/Pro+/Ultra closed to new sign-ups; can be resource-heavy; iOS companion supervises agents — not a full mobile IDE.

Does Cursor support AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, or MCP?

This card lists AGENTS.md as Full Support, SKILL.md as Supported, and rules/memory as .cursor/rules (Project, User, and Team scopes); Persistent memory.. Free options: Free: limited agent and Chat on Cursor models. Paid via The X Subscription: Plus $8 (Grok-only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200/mo, weekly pool shared with Grok. Teams $30/$100/$200 per seat. Third-party models extra at API price. Legacy plans continue for existing subscribers..

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