cursor-delegate

1# Cursor Delegate
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3You are the **orchestrator**. Hand a bounded coding task to a separate **implementer** — the Cursor
4Agent CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the
5judgment; Cursor does the typing in its own session; you verify and commit.
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7The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.
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9## When NOT to use this
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11- The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
12- The `cursor-agent` CLI is not installed or authenticated (run `cursor-agent login`).
13- You want to write the code yourself, or you only need Cursor's opinion on code you wrote (a
14  `--read-only` dispatch covers that — see below — but a plain review may not need delegation at all).
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16## Prerequisites (check once)
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181. `cursor-agent --version` succeeds. If not, follow the installer for your platform at
19   [cursor.com/cli](https://cursor.com/cli), inspect what it will run, and authenticate with
20   `cursor-agent login`.
212. `cursor-agent status` shows you logged in.
223. You are in (or will point `--cd` at) the target git repository. The relay passes `--trust`, so
23   point it only at repositories you trust.
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25## Choose the model
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27Omitting `--model` uses your Cursor default (usually `auto` — Cursor picks). To pin one, pass
28`--model <name>` with a name from the account's live `cursor-agent models` output — select from that
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