Honest comparison

Cursor vs codehere:
different jobs.

Cursor is the AI editor you write in. codehere is where delegatedagent work lives. One important honesty up front: codehere doesn't run Cursor — it orchestrates CLI agents. The two compose; they don't compete.

01

What each one is

Cursor

An AI editor. Inline completions, chat, and its own agent mode — all inside the editor. The work and its history live in your IDE.

codehere

A home for delegated work. You hand a goal to a CLI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, OpenCode, Gemini), watch it run in a local room, and get an honest report. The unit of work is the goal.

02

One tool's agent vs five agents

Cursor

Cursor's agent runs inside Cursor, with Cursor's models. Powerful — and contained to the one tool.

codehere

codehere orchestrates five independent CLI agents and lets them take turns on the same goal — Claude does a pass, Codex reviews, Aider fixes — all sharing one room and one project memory.

03

What's left when the work is done

Cursor

The code, plus your editor's chat and run history — reviewable inside Cursor.

codehere

The code, plus the room: every step recorded, every file change listed, a hash-chained local audit you can verify from the CLI, and a Final Report machine-checked against the git-recorded changes. The run itself is a verifiable artifact.

04

Do they overlap?

Cursor

Cursor is where you write. Nothing about codehere asks you to leave it — the daemon and room run alongside any editor.

codehere

codehere also ships an MCP server exposing its four trust tools — and Cursor connects to it (verified live, 2026-06-07): paste the codehere serve --show-config block into Cursor's MCP settings. Local-first, so the daemon must be running.

When Cursor alone is all you need

Sometimes you don't need a second layer.

  • You never delegate.If every change goes through your hands in the editor, there's no agent run to give a home to. codehere orchestrates CLI agents — no CLI agents, nothing to orchestrate.
  • Your team lives in one tool. If Cursor is the whole workflow and that works, adding a daemon and a web UI is complexity you didn't ask for.
  • It's early here. codehere is v0.8, invite-only while we onboard the first developers. Cursor is a mature, funded product. We'd rather you know that going in.

Write in Cursor. Delegate through codehere.

Local-first, open source, your keys. Invite-only while it's early — request one and we'll set you up.

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