Cursor vs Cline

Cursor added 30+ new plugins from partners like Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, and Hugging Face, enabling cloud agents to read, write, and take actions across more of the user's stack. Previous updates also introduced Automations for always-on agents triggered by schedules or events, JetBrains IDE support via Agent Client Protocol, MCP Apps with interactive UIs, and Bugbot Autofix for automatic PR fixes.

Cursor added 30+ new plugins from partners like Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, and Hugging Face, enabling cloud agents to read, write, and take actions across more of the development stack. Previous updates also introduced Automations for always-on agents triggered by schedules or events, JetBrains IDE support via Agent Client Protocol, MCP Apps with interactive UIs, and Bugbot Autofix for automatic PR fixes.

Agent mode introduced. Cursor can autonomously run terminal commands, edit files and fix errors.

Claude integration added. Multi-file editing with Composer. Codebase-wide context understanding.

Initial launch as AI-first VS Code fork. Basic code completion and chat features.

Added Anthropic Opus 4.6 fast mode variants and fixed several issues including native tool placeholder interpolation in prompts, Windows unit test path normalization, and Bedrock thinking block handling. Markdown image loading now requires user consent, and hooks feature toggle was reintroduced.

MCP support added. Browser automation built in. Improved context management for large codebases.

Open source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Uses Claude API. Can read/write files, run terminal commands and browse web.