# Local agent mode

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/local-agent-mode/98676>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 30, 2025, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/local-agent-mode/98676 "2025-05-30T10:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/local-agent-mode/98676/2 "2025-05-30T10:42:19Z")

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Hey, unfortunately, Cursor cannot work when totally offline.

When you make a request, it is first sent from your local machine to Cursor’s servers, where the final prompt is sent to the AI.

There is currently no way to bypass this step, so while you could host a local model and expose it publicly, using that as your OpenAI URL override value, you can’t cut out Cursor’s servers entirely, as this is where a lot of the pre-processing happens to give Cursor its intelligence!

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