Cursor

Quadrant distribution

Jev `choice` — not a hard 0.5 cut. Confidence 0.43.

• Anchored38.0%
• Operational58.0%
• Directed3.0%
• Forming1.0%

Evidence ledger

Recency half-life 180 days. Weight = 2^(-age/180).

1. announcement · published 2026-02-24 · w=0.440

   Cursor agents can now control their own computers

   Cursor launched cloud agents with their own virtual machines and remote desktops, available from web, mobile, desktop, Slack, and GitHub, and stated that more than 30% of PRs merged at Cursor were created by agents in cloud sandboxes.

2. announcement · published 2026-09-02 · w=0.915

   Run cloud agents on machines you manage

   Cursor announced self-hosted worker pools and wrote that cloud agents now create more than 60% of the pull requests the company merges internally, with partners including AWS Lambda, Cloudflare, Coder, Daytona, E2B, Modal, Namespace, and Vercel.

3. case_study · published 2026-02-13 · w=0.422

   Box chooses Cursor

   Cursor published a Box case study stating over 800 developers use Cursor daily, 85% engineering adoption, a 30–50% increase in roadmap throughput, and 80–90% faster migrations.

4. announcement · published 2026-09-10 · w=0.944

   Introducing Projects

   Cursor launched Projects for multi-PR bodies of work with a coordinator and subagents, stating internally that new users merge 30% more PRs and users who primarily use Projects merge six times as many.

Reproducibility

resolved model: jev-1.13.0

requested model: jev-latest

request id: req_01a0d5de78b67494a50450196627aa47

timestamp: 2026-09-25T00:02:01.331Z

request hash: 4345e57a726f3fbcc34faea32bb9701b0de71d62ff533ad15fa9df6e3192c9b8

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      "title": "AI coding agents",
      "x_axis": "Proven Execution",
      "y_axis": "Validated Direction"
    },
    "entity": {
      "id": "cursor",
      "name": "Cursor",
      "website": "https://cursor.com",
      "description": "Agent-first editor and cloud agent platform from Anysphere."
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      "criteria": {
        "true": "Independent public evidence shows a generally available product used by third parties.",
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      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there credible adoption evidence?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Credible adoption evidence exists: named customers, published user or download counts, case studies, or equivalent.",
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      }
    },
    "exec_reliability": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of reliability, quality, security/compliance, or operational maturity?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of reliability, quality, security/compliance, or operational maturity (uptime, incidents handled, certifications, long-running open-source project).",
        "false": "No reliability or quality evidence is present."
      }
    },
    "exec_cadence": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of continued delivery after launch?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of continued delivery after launch (dated releases, changelog, subsequent features).",
        "false": "Delivery appears one-shot or stalled."
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      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there a specific, consistent, dated public strategy or roadmap?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "A public strategy or roadmap is specific, consistent, and dated.",
        "false": "Direction is vague, contradictory, or only implied."
      }
    },
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      "type": "noul",
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      "criteria": {
        "true": "Roadmap or strategy claims are backed by shipped artifacts in the evidence pack.",
        "false": "Direction is promised without corresponding delivery evidence."
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      "criteria": {
        "true": "The evidenced direction is distinct from generic category copy.",
        "false": "Positioning is interchangeable with peers."
      }
    },
    "dir_invested": {
      "type": "noul",
      "instructions": "Use only the supplied state. Do not use prior knowledge that is not represented as evidence items. If evidence is thin, return a probability near 0.5 with the understanding that uncertainty is handled separately. Is there evidence of sustained investment in this product?",
      "criteria": {
        "true": "Evidence of sustained investment (funding used for the product, research, open-source velocity, or platform expansion).",
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        "DIRECTED": "Validated direction is better evidenced than proven execution.",
        "OPERATIONAL": "Proven execution is better evidenced than validated direction.",
        "FORMING": "Both axes are thin, early, or contradicted."
      }
    }
  }
}

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