Cursor --version printing cursor-agent version?

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We have some scripts that rely on the output of cursor --version. When my colleagues were running cursor --version, they were getting the desired and expected 3 line version format

1.6.27
d750e54bba5cffada6d7b3d18e5688ba5e944ad0
arm64

However when I was running cursor --version I was getting

2025.09.12-4852336

A bit of investigation with AI led me to cursor-agent, if I run ~/.local/bin/cursor-agent --version it would print out 2025.09.12-4852336 only.

So I moved this symlink with mv ~/.local/bin/cursor-agent ~/.local/bin/cursor-agent.bak and then retried cursor --version. When I did this, a brief prompt flashed on the terminal saying cursor-agent couldn’t be found and it is installing. And after that, cursor --version now prints

1.6.27
d750e54bba5cffada6d7b3d18e5688ba5e944ad0
arm64

as expected.

So my question is: is cursor cli relying on the existence of cursor-agent? and it is expected that it would use cursor-agent version instead of its own version? What is this cursor-agent and when is it used / hijacking the cursor version?

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Hey, thanks for the report, we’ll look into it.