Cursor CLI (Jan 8, 2026)

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New in Cursor CLI! · Full changelog · Main announcement

We just shipped some updates to Cursor CLI, including new commands for models, rules, and MCP management, plus hooks which are now 10-20x faster!

Curious to hear how folks are using the CLI in their workflows:

  • What’s your setup? Running it alongside an editor, or going terminal-only?
  • Using hooks? What are you automating with them?
  • Feature requests? What would make the CLI more useful for how you work?
Cursor CLI (Jan 8, 2026): New commands and performance improvement
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I’m unable to make Hooks work on Cursor CLI, also I can’t find related documentation. Are they available for all users?

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Hey there,

Thank you for improving Cursor CLI.

The experience is still not as good as Claude Code or OpenCode but it’s improving slowly.

The issues I’m having currently is I can’t press ctrl+g to edit the prompt like Claude Code allows.

Also would be nice to have a way to fork the conversation (in cc it’s press just opening a new terminal window, writing claude -r then pressing escape escape to go back to a previous message to fork from.

Final thing is GPT 5.2 xhigh isn’t available in the CLI, only in the GUI.

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Hey @Alex_Caceres!

Hooks are available to all users and are documented here. They work the same way for the Cursor CLI as in Cursor itself. Hooks are loaded from ~/.cursor/hooks.json (user) and .cursor/hooks.json (project).

If you run into any issues, please open a new thread in the Community!

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Hey @Colin , does Cursor CLI supports Agent Skills now? If not, is there any estimated time for it? thanks

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Hey Peter.

Soon! Sorry I can’t be more specific than that.

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A post was split to a new topic: How do hooks work in Cursor CLI?

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I just discovered Cursor CLI and it’s amazing! Great work! I’m using it in Zed terminal and my CPU/GPU is much happier. Everything is snappier.

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