What is Cursor?
Cursor is an AI coding agent that helps write, edit, and understand code. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | xAI |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 10, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Cursor shows up while a developer is coding against something you publish, pulling docs, API references, and examples in quick runs of several pages within a few seconds. With many developers using it at once, those runs overlap into steady traffic rather than the quiet gaps a single user would leave. Either way, requests concentrate almost entirely on technical content.
Cursor's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/3.9.16 Chrome/144.0.7559.236 Electron/40.10.3 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block Cursor With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Cursor from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI coding agents at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Cursor # https://knownagents.com/agents/cursor
Disallow: /Cursor Global Insights
As of July 10, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block Cursor in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Coding Agent Traffic
0.0% of all web traffic came from AI coding agents.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Cursor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Cursor?
Allow it if you publish documentation or technical content. Cursor fetches docs and code examples at the moment a developer needs them, so blocking it makes your product harder to build with. Search rankings are unaffected either way. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for Cursor right now.
Does Cursor Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Cursor is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Cursor actually honors it.
Does Cursor Access Private Content?
Not on its own. Cursor reads public documentation, references, and code examples. It can only reach private resources if the developer using it supplies credentials on purpose.
Why Is Cursor Visiting My Website?
A developer somewhere is building against something you document. Cursor pulled your docs, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written at that moment.
How Can I Tell if Cursor Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Cursor visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Cursor". Look for bursts of requests to your documentation and reference pages. Keep in mind that Cursor doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.