An AI-powered code editor and agent workspace for understanding codebases, planning work, editing files, and running development tasks.
Cursor was built around the idea that AI should change the code editor itself. By 2024, its team was developing next-edit prediction, codebase retrieval and fast rewrites to turn everyday programming chores into shorter interactions. Answering a question about unfamiliar code, applying a refactor and translating an instruction into a change were parts of the same workflow. The ambition continued beyond autocomplete. In its 2025 retrospective, the team described a future where developers could express larger changes with less manual code and get immediate answers about a project. Cursor combines research into coding models with the interface where developers inspect and shape their work.
Cursor began as a fork of Visual Studio Code.
