What is Cursor?

Cursor is an AI coding agent that helps write, edit, and understand code. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

Overview

Operated By xAI
Source Official Website
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes
Insights Last Updated August 8, 2026

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Category

AI Coding Agent
Fetches documentation and other resources to help build software

Expected Behavior

Cursor typically makes several requests within seconds. A single developer leaves quiet gaps, while overlapping sessions can produce steady traffic. Activity comes in short, targeted sessions rather than broad site-wide crawls.

Cursor's User Agent

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/3.4.20 Chrome/142.0.7444.265 Electron/39.8.1 Safari/537.36

How To Block Cursor With Robots.txt

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Cursor from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI coding agents at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: Cursor # https://knownagents.com/agents/cursor
Disallow: /

Global Statistics for Cursor

As of August 8, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Cursor
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Country of Origin

United States
Cursor normally visits From the United States

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

0% of top websites block Cursor in their robots.txt files.

Overall AI Coding Agent Traffic

0.0% of all web traffic came from AI coding agents.

Top Visited Website Categories

Internet and Telecom
Business and Industrial
Reference
Computers and Electronics
Sports

The types of websites most frequently visited by Cursor.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block Cursor?

Allow Cursor if developers rely on your documentation or technical content. Blocking it can make your product harder to build with but does not affect traditional search rankings. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Cursor.


Does Cursor Follow Robots.txt Rules?

Yes. Cursor is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Cursor respects it.


Does Cursor Access Private Content?

Not unless a developer explicitly provides credentials. Cursor otherwise reads only public documentation, references, and code examples.


Why Is Cursor Visiting My Website?

A developer is working with a product or technology you document. Cursor retrieved your documentation, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written.


How Can I Tell if Cursor Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks Cursor visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Cursor". Look for clustered requests across documentation, API reference, and code example pages. Because Cursor does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.