Has someone tried run Karpathy’s autoresearch with Cursor CLI?
I tried agent --prompt --trust --yolo "prompr here" but it does not print anything and appears to be doing nothing
I ended up using the interactive mode, but not sure if ideal
Any recommendations?
By the way, when running on a cloud VM we need to run Cursor CLI in the background using nohup so we can exist the SSH session and it continues working - how to do this?
If Cursor could support this, it would be awesome!
It’s the flag name: --prompt isn’t a valid Cursor CLI flag. For non-interactive/headless runs you want --print (or -p). Without it, the agent won’t print to stdout, so it looks like nothing happens.
Try:
cursor agent --print --trust --yolo "Read program.md and let's kick off a new experiment! Let's do the setup first."
Key flags:
--print / -p: headless mode + prints output
--trust: skips workspace trust prompts (works with --print)
--yolo / --force: runs commands without confirmation (important if the agent needs to execute things like uv run train.py)
If you’re running this on a VM and want it to keep going after disconnecting SSH, use tmux:
tmux new -s research
cursor agent --print --trust --yolo "Read program.md and let's kick off a new experiment! Let's do the setup first."
# detach: Ctrl+B, D
# later: tmux attach -t research