Can we use LLMs in the cursor subscription outside cursor by and API a key?

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Feature request for product/service

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Describe the request

I love cursor agent in the IDE but something we need to use open code, It would me nice that we can use the models we have in the subscription like composer 2 outside cursor,

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Hey, this is a duplicate of your earlier thread: It would be great we can use models in the subscription outside Cursor by Api Key, so let’s keep the discussion there.

Quick answer for context: today, the Cursor subscription doesn’t expose models as a generic external inference API. Subscription model access is tied to the Cursor IDE and agent infrastructure. The closest programmatic option is the Cursor SDK: TypeScript SDK | Cursor Docs, which lets you create and run agents programmatically, but it isn’t a raw model passthrough you can plug into other editors like opencode.