What is 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. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Cursor.

Yes. Cursor is expected to follow robots.txt rules, 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.

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

Agent Analytics tracks Cursor visits in real time. 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.

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.