Confidentiality Mode

Feature Requests
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The current Privacy Mode is based on the “zero retention” policy of the model providers. This is not sufficient for some companies. Those companies operate their own models, usually with Azure on their AI Foundry Platform, and do not allow their employees to use public services like Open AI.

The new lawsuit NYT vs Open AI proves, that relying only on the promises of those companies is indeed a risk.

Since developers at those companies would still like to use Cursor, it would be great if there was a “Confidentiality Mode” in addition to the “Privacy Mode” That mode would then

  • Disable all public and proprietary models
  • Only allow self hosted and local models
  • Only allow remote MCP servers that are whitelisted by the team admin.

I guess the proprietary model used for autocomplete would need to be made available on Azure AI Foundry somehow.

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As you said “some companies” … the question is … is it worth the effort?
Or maybe this is a niche for another company/solution to handle?
I already heard of enterprises building their own ides because of that.

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Unfortunately, locally hosted models are unlikely to be added due to how Cursor works. You can already add your Azure or AWS Bedrock-hosted models via Cursor, but it’s our servers that do a lot of the processing, so we can never really avoid it directly.

That being said, our Privacy Mode is already very extensive, and has already proven to be enough security for many of our enterprise customers!