What is Cursor?
Cursor is an AI coding agent that helps write, edit, and understand code. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Cursor visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Cursor/1.0.0 |
| Operated By | xAI |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | User action |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
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.
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. For context, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Cursor.
How Do I Block Cursor Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Cursor from accessing your 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: /Insights for Cursor
As of November 6, 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 Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Cursor?
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.
Does Cursor Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Cursor is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Cursor respects it.
Is Cursor Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Cursor is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Cursor Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Cursor can keep your documentation out of answers it gives developers. It does not directly affect general AI search indexes or traditional search rankings.
Does Cursor Access Private Content?
Not unless a developer explicitly provides credentials. Cursor otherwise reads only public documentation, references, and code examples.
How Can I Verify a Request From Cursor?
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.
How Is Cursor Different From Other xAI Agents?
xAI operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- Grok Bot: Grok Bot is a personal AI agent created by xAI that runs on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, filesystem, and terminal. It completes multi-step tasks across app…
- xAI-SearchBot: xAI-SearchBot is a web crawler operated by xAI, the company behind Grok, to collect information from across the web for use in their search and chatbot products. This bot…
- grok-agent: grok-agent is an undocumented AI agent operated by xAI.
- GrokBot: GrokBot is an undocumented AI agent operated by xAI.
- xAI-Grok: xAI-Grok is an undocumented AI agent operated by xAI.