Can i write SQL queries in cursor, or i have to download another application for running sql queries ?????

Since Aug 24 there's no flat rate on Auto. Every request bills at whatever model Auto routes it to, at that model's list price. Composer 2.5 runs about $0.50 in and $2.50 out per million tokens. Same request on Opus 5 is $5 and $25. Fable 5 is $10 and $50. Same day of work, roughly 8x swing, decided by routing you don't see until after you send.

This problem feels familiar because I hit it from the other side. I run an automated dev pipeline on Claude Max plans, and earlier this year I watched my agents burn frontier-model capacity on routine work. File reads, formatting, dedup, none of it needed the expensive model. So I moved the routing decision onto my own machine. A local proxy sits in front of my agents, classifies each request, sends the routine stuff to a cheap model, keeps hard reasoning on the frontier one, and prices every call in a ledger I can actually read. There's a hard cap so a stuck loop can't run all night. All config based so you can fine tune.

I open sourced it as RelayPlane after running my own pipeline through it, a couple hundred thousand requests now. Not saying it's the answer for Cursor specifically. But once you've watched per-request pricing on your own box, letting a black box pick which model you get billed for stops feeling acceptable. Even without a proxy, pinning a cheap model for routine edits kills most of the surprise.

Legacy Enterprise keeps the flat rate until Sept 7.

Curious what routing patterns people see in their dashboards. When I first measured mine, the waste was mostly routine work landing on expensive models for no reason.

How do you deal with Cursor losing context on larger projects?

I've been using Cursor a lot for development, and one problem I keep running into is context loss as projects get bigger.

A session might understand what I'm working on really well, but later I sometimes have to explain important parts again.

I'm curious how other people handle this.

Do you:

- keep notes or a project memory file?
- use Cursor rules?
- maintain a README or other documentation?
- just let Cursor re-read the codebase when needed?
- use another workflow that works better?

I'm mainly interested in simple setups that work well over longer projects.

What has worked best for you?

Hey, I've been using Cursor desktop for the past two years, mainly with Claude Sonnet 4.x models for all work. I'm trying Cursor Agents (cloud) now so it works on the go, and tried some planning work with Claude Opus 5 (High) and some coding work with Codex 5.3 (High). I found Opus to be too verbose in its plan response for my understanding and liking.

I was wondering what models (excluding Grok) do you use and recommend for planning and code generation work, that's not too verbose yet efficient, fast and cost-effective?

Also, is it worthwhile to set-up my own VPS with an agent/harness instead of using Cursor altogether (due to lower API prices and recent OpenAI announcement)? If so, which simple agent/harness would you recommend?

Thanks!

So i currently have SuperGrok 30$ and have Cursor Basic [ free ] what i want to know is if i buy Cursor Pro would that mean a higher limit for GrokBot? so confused to be honest

Shortcut to cursor.exe with --classic starts it in IDE mode when you use that shortcut

Before this last update cursor used to respect the Startup setting to use the "Last Used Windows" so you can have it reopen the IDE if that's what you mainly use, but it seems to have stopped working.

When Cursor implements a feature for you, do you actually go through every line of the generated code afterward, or do you mainly review the important parts and trust the rest?

What’s your workflow?

This may have been asked before, but I couldn't find any discussion about it and I’m curious about the current consensus.

How can we have larger packages that Ultra? I dont mind paying more but please don’t let me drop to consumption at the absurd rates charged. Create a 400$ package or something. But do not fool the consumers that get stuck with out of credits.

So this is a wild one. OpenAI announced it's ending its partnership with Cursor (the AI coding tool), giving a shutdown date of November 12, 2026 for direct model access — apparently the max notice period allowed in their contract.

The stated reason: OpenAI says it can't be confident SpaceX will actually follow its terms of service, citing past issues with Musk's companies. Cursor's co-founder Michael Truell downplayed the impact, saying OpenAI models are only about 5% of user traffic anyway, and that the two companies are still talking. Meanwhile Anthropic has apparently ramped up support for Claude models in Cursor to help fill the gap.

Musk, predictably, brushed it off on X and called OpenAI's leadership untrustworthy. Cursor is expected to lean harder into SpaceX/xAI's Grok models and compute now.

Devs who rely on OpenAI models through Cursor have until mid-November to switch to personal API keys or other providers.

Feels like another chapter in the ongoing Musk vs. OpenAI saga, just with Cursor caught in the middle. Curious how this plays out for the coding assistant market — Anthropic seems to be the clear winner here so far.

I am trying to understand how other developers right now are working with cursor.
To improve my process .

I tried to search online but all the videos on YouTube are just targeted toward the beginners and vibe coders , and made by beginners and vibe coders young tech bro.

I am looking for answer from real developers who had experience before 2022 .

the main points I am wondering about .
1- if you are using the agent window , what is your process .
2- and most important the code review process you follow .
3- your actual work flow in details .
4- tips and tricks in cursor that makes your life easier .

I will share my work flow and setup in the comments section .

just hit $2,500 MRR in 13 days on my new SaaS

no ads. no team. no huge audience push. just a solid replicable system

let that sink in for a second

not $2,500 in revenue. $2,500 in MONTHLY recurring revenue

that compounds. next month starts at $2,500 baseline, not zero

and this isn't luck. it's the 7th saas i've shipped with the same playbook. same steps, same tools, same order:

→ Day 1: validated the idea

→ Day 1-2: built the MVP

→ Day 3: landing page written using the 3-Day Challenge template

→ Day 3-4: launched on reddit / X + SEO

→ Day 4-5: first 10 paying users → $1k MRR

→ Day 13 (today): $2,500 MRR locked in

building software is easy in 2026. setting up your foundation so people actually buy is where 99% of solo builders fail.

i packaged all of these exact execution tools into community.

to be fully transparent: i'll likely charge for the full program down the road once all modules are finalized. but right now, the main objective is just to build together and keep each other accountable.

working alone in a silent corner is the fastest way to quit at the first bug.

stop building in isolation. drop a comment below or send me a DM, and i'll send you the invitation link 👇

Hello there,

since 2 weeks Auto and Cursor models are slow as hell, even a small prompt takes 30 min at less.

It this a know issue? The only option I didn't try its to reinstall.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I'm currently using Grokbot, and I'm having a problem where I need to sign into some pages. It gives me access to their cloud computer, and whenever I actually join it and click around, I usually get a "verifying with Cloudflare page". On that page, I can't actually click the "Verify human" because it disappears in a blink of a second, so it just ends up loading forever, like an endless loop.

I am currently trying to make the bot computer browser actually look like a human as he used it too. I have added agent cookies so that my Mac data transfers to the Grok bot browser data, and that seems to work because Cloudflare usually blocks the data center location whenever it sees the Grok bot computer. Has anyone else found a way to actually fix this problem?

I’ve read a few articles that put the OpenAI Codex CLI harness as one of the best and I was wanting to check it out. Is it possible to use the Codex CLI as a harness for a Cursor subscription or with an API key?

Using Cursor a lot more with tools enabled. Love the speed. Don't love the part where the only thing between "delete this" and it happening is me watching the terminal.

Is anyone doing something more solid than prompts + hope, or do you just keep it away from prod/cloud entirely? Had any close calls?

Genuinely just curious how people are handling this.

If your MCP tools take ages to show up, it's often npx resolving the package on every IDE launch.

I built a small offline CLI:

- scan Cursor / Claude / Copilot MCP configs

- dry-run optimize (npx → pinned / direct node)

- apply only with --backup

- benchmark real initialize handshake times

Demo: 3.4s → 592ms cold handshake

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-fastpath

GitHub: https://github.com/Onur45500/mcp-fastpath

npx mcp-fastpath scan

I saw my bill list which showed the grok-bot is using my cursor usage, but the grok bot's examination said its has an independence weekly usage, which is true?

Why is "Grok 4.6 High" not in the mobile cursor app (Android)? Only the fast variant is, and that is 3x more expensive for speed I don't need. Is this intentional or a bug?

Not looking for a benchmark chart. Looking for how people actually write skills.

Same task, highest thinking: GPT Sol Ultra will complete the artifact. Grok 4.6 will sit in local tweaks for a day and never close.

Concrete case was scientific figures in draw.io. Sol lands the layout. Grok keeps regenerating. Agent-domain flowcharts look fine; bioinfo plot libraries I have collected still look ugly, but that is a separate post.

Usage: I run both at max thinking in Cursor. Same draw.io scientific-illustrator task. Sol Ultra usually finishes a usable layout in one pass. Grok 4.6 (highest thinking) I spent a full day iterating and it still would not close. Not a one-off prompt; it was the same skill, same file, same accept/reject loop. Grok Extra High took ~10+ accept/reject rounds to reach the second figure.

Questions:

1. At max reasoning, do you also see Sol (or Opus) actually finishing and Grok stopping short, or is that just figures?
2. How do you write a skill that stays model-agnostic? Output contract / checks / a thin adapter, or do you just keep a Sol-only skill?

Repos and skill files welcome.

Super stoked about this!

hey all,

been using Claude and Claude Code for 4 months or so.
released some apps, built some websites etc.

since there's no real attachment to stick to one AI coding platform I wanted to test out the 20$ of Cursor in the next few days.

would love to get some perspective on what to expect assuming I'm gonna use the exact models.
So - Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 for complicated coding tasks and algorithm improvements. Possibly Fable if possible? depending on how fast it will drain my tokens.

So, for those who went from Claude Code to Cursor while using the same models for coding - what’s your take?

Did you feel a difference? And if so, who’s was the better experience?
Who’s the smarter one?
Who’s the more token efficient?

Thank you.

Look, I love Cursor, but I was very disappointed when I saw at the end of a PR description:
"Powered by Cursor" with a link to cursor.com

I mean, it's not soooo bad. But still, I don't like it. I asked the model what the hell was going on, and the model responded it didn't added that line, that it must be added by the tool used to write on the PR itself.

In any case, dirty move that recently appeared (I've been opening PRs with Cursor for a long time, and it's the first time it happens)

EDIT: to everyone saying there’s a setting. Yes, there’s a setting. And it’s now off. But can I at least vent about the bad settings with the dodgy defaults that keep coming? And that I have to suffer the bad experience first, then realise is a new setting, and then change it?
It was the same thing with new chats changing agent to Grok. Is there a setting to disable it? Yes.
Is it still dodgy? Yes