# Palaestra: interview and exam practice inside Cursor, with a live interviewer in your code comments

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/palaestra-interview-and-exam-practice-inside-cursor-with-a-live-interviewer-in-your-code-comments/175806>\
**Category:** Built for Cursor\
**Tags:** cli, extensions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/palaestra-interview-and-exam-practice-inside-cursor-with-a-live-interviewer-in-your-code-comments/175806 "2026-10-22T18:32:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![zelosleone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/zelosleone/32/21092_2.png) [@zelosleone](https://forum.cursor.com/u/zelosleone)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/palaestra-interview-and-exam-practice-inside-cursor-with-a-live-interviewer-in-your-code-comments/175806/1 "2026-10-22T18:32:14Z")

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Hi, Denizhan again. Palaestra is a practice gym that lives in your editor.

- **Questions while you work:** rest on a line and a question about it shows up in the sidebar: what it returns, what breaks it, what it really costs. Or questions on your own subjects: interview rounds, university finals, olympiads, SAT, JEE and more.
- **Checked before you see them:** a second model solves every question blind first, and anything wrong or ambiguous is thrown out. Numeric answers are worked out by a program.
- **Live coding rounds:** the problem opens in your language with hidden tests, and an interviewer comments on your lines. It asks about the edge case you’ll miss, nudges when you’re stuck, asks for the complexity, and gives a debrief. It never writes the code for you.

![A live interview round](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/0/d/0d774c5515c936e0a9c7812ef2da26d9f6ed3c1b.gif)

In Cursor it runs on your Cursor plan’s models through Cursor’s CLI, in Ask mode and in its own folder, so nothing lands in your project. Your Antigravity plan or any API key works too.

To be upfront: it’s paid. 15 questions and 2 live rounds free, then $10 once, on up to 10 devices.

Open VSX: [Open VSX Registry](https://open-vsx.org/extension/DenizhanDaklr/palaestra)

What do you practice with before interviews these days, and what’s missing from it?