cursor-agent

The Cursor CLI agent, installed from a specific Cursor release.

Installs the Cursor CLI agent (cursor-agent), Cursor’s coding agent for the terminal.

devtools:
  - name: cursor-agent

That is the whole install. It brings its own Node.js runtime, so it does not need the nodejs devtool. The command is on the system PATH as cursor-agent.

Logging in

Sign in from a shell on the workstation (rl shell <workstation>), as Cursor’s own documentation describes.

Version behavior

version is a whole Cursor release name, a date and a build code joined by a dash, and it is used exactly as you write it. A version number such as 1.2.0 is not a Cursor release name, and the install fails on the workstation.

versionResult
omittedthe release Ringleader installs by default, 2026.09.18-9a7762b today
2026.09.18-9a7762bthat exact release

Notes

  • The recipe is safe to re-run: a workstation that already has cursor-agent on PATH is skipped.
  • Cursor’s own installer also adds the command as agent. This one adds only cursor-agent.
  • Works on Debian and Ubuntu, on amd64 and arm64. Alpine is refused, because Cursor publishes no build for it.