# How to use cursor instead of Open Api

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-use-cursor-instead-of-open-api/91309>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 13, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-use-cursor-instead-of-open-api/91309 "2025-05-13T10:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![waterfast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/waterfast/32/54797_2.png) [@waterfast](https://forum.cursor.com/u/waterfast)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-use-cursor-instead-of-open-api/91309/1 "2025-05-13T10:21:48Z")

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I’m currently refactoring my game code. As my project is too large, I’ve written a python script to use OpenAI API, letting AI restructure each of my character’s skills into new skill code. But I haven’t found a way to use cursor for multiple calls yet.I need some help.

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**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-use-cursor-instead-of-open-api/91309/2 "2025-05-13T14:49:31Z")

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Hi there,

Congrats on using AI to edit your project.

Cursor is an IDE (Editor) with AI capabilities, it does not directly expose an API like OpenAI. However Cursor itself does use AI API’s like from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.

You can use the Agent feature of Cursor to tell AI to work on specific changes.

Multiple parallel agents are currently in Beta (Background Agent), but you can in the meantime use Chat/Agent tabs.

Have a look here what the options are and let me know if you have a specific request.

> **[Cursor – Agent Mode](https://docs.cursor.com/chat/agent)**
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> Autonomous AI coding agent that independently explores, plans, and executes complex codebase changes with full tools

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-use-cursor-instead-of-open-api/91309/3 "2026-06-18T10:42:18Z")

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Closed on June 18, 2026, 10:42am UTC