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Scape vs Cursor

Cursor is an AI code editor. Its Agents Window, generally available since Cursor 3 on April 2, 2026, runs many agents across your machine, cloud machines and SSH hosts. Scape runs Cursor's agent too, so you can use the two together.[1] Here is how it compares with Scape, with a source for every claim about Cursor.

Agents

Agents

Scape: Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, OpenCode, pi, omp and Kimi Code, on your own subscriptions.

Cursor: Cursor's own agent, with models including Grok, Composer 2.5, Claude, GPT and Gemini. Third-party models are on higher plans, at API list price.[3]

Manager agent (Argus)

Scape: Argus reads your mission, starts child agents in their own worktrees, checks on them, and keeps a log table. You choose which agent and model its children run on, and can restart it on another agent without losing them.

Cursor: Cursor's agent can hand tasks to subagents, and run several at once in their own contexts, then use their results.[8]

Agent rooms

Scape: Chat rooms where agents and people work one problem together, such as Claude and Codex debating an approach.

Cursor: No.

Messages between sessions

Scape: One agent can message or direct another session.

Cursor: No.

Agent review

Scape: Adversarial review: a second agent reviews the first one's diff (/scape-codex-review ships with Scape).

Cursor: Bugbot reviews pull requests.[6]

Watchdogs

Scape: Supervisors that spot stuck sessions and auto-answer questions and permission gates (Claude Code).

Cursor: Auto-review run mode: allowlisted calls run at once and calls that can't be sandboxed go to an automated classifier. A Run Everything mode runs every tool call without asking.[9]

Automation

Playbooks

Scape: Step-by-step automations that chain shell commands, agent prompts, HTTP calls and Scape tools. Lock one and it runs as a fixed script.

Cursor: No.

Scheduler

Scape: A per-project calendar that runs playbooks and messages Argus, once or daily, weekly or monthly, while Scape is open.

Cursor: Automations run cloud agents on a schedule.[6]

Triggers

Scape: Run a playbook or prompt Argus when a webhook arrives, an integration record changes, a table query matches, or a calendar event happens. You arm each one.

Cursor: Automations also run on events from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Linear or webhooks.[6]

Working with people

Flight Plans

Scape: One shared, end-to-end encrypted plan for any number of people and their agents. Every open question is a thread; answers land in the doc as decisions and tasks, and you can hand a task straight to an agent. Share it by link and approve each person who asks to join.

Cursor: No.

Encrypted chat

Scape: End-to-end encrypted group and one-to-one rooms. Messages are never stored on a server.

Cursor: No.

Sharing

Scape: Drag notes, playbooks and tables into an encrypted chat to share them.

Cursor: Share read-only copies of agent conversations by link, with your team or publicly. Canvases can also be published to teammates as read-only links.[10]

Workspace

Notes

Scape: Rich-text notes with version history, embedded charts and full-text search, synced through your iCloud.

Cursor: No.

Tables

Scape: SQLite-backed tables your agents and playbooks read and write, viewed as a table, kanban or gantt.

Cursor: No.

Charts

Scape: Bar, line, area, scatter, pie and KPI charts built from your tables, embeddable in notes.

Cursor: Agents can make canvases next to the chat: reports and dashboards with sections, stats, charts and tables.[11]

Custom Apps

Scape: Small apps built from a JSON spec, kept in your project.

Cursor: No.

Integrations

Scape: Jira, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear, ServiceNow, Bugsnag, Datadog, or any HTTP source, in your sidebar.

Cursor: Integrations with Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab and others, for example delegating a Linear issue to a cloud agent.[12]

Dev tools

Worktrees

Scape: A git worktree per session, with a post-create hook you set per repo or globally.

Cursor: In the Agents Window each agent gets its own checkout, with setup in .cursor/worktrees.json and automatic cleanup (25 per machine by default).[5]

Code editor

Scape: Monaco, with 60+ languages, a diff view, Vim mode and LSP.

Cursor: A full code editor.[1]

Browser

Scape: A built-in browser your agents can drive: screenshots, clicks, forms and scraping.

Cursor: Built-in browser the agent can drive: open URLs, click, fill forms and take screenshots.[13]

Dev servers

Scape: A live browser preview paired with each server. Cmd+click jumps to the source, and each worktree gets its own port.

Cursor: No.

Spectator mode

Scape: Every file an agent edits opens live in the editor, so you can follow along.

Cursor: No.

The basics

Status

Scape: In active development.

Cursor: Actively developed. Latest changelog entry 2026-10-20 (Agent SDK); release notes list version 3.27.[14]

Where agents run

Scape: On your Mac. Claude Code sessions can also run on a saved SSH host. No hosted agents.

Cursor: Locally, on cloud machines or self-hosted machines, and over SSH, with handoff between local and cloud.[7][1]

Platform

Scape: macOS. Claude Code sessions can also be driven from the Claude mobile app through Remote Control, opt-in per project. There is no Scape mobile app yet.

Cursor: macOS, Windows and Linux.[2]

Price

Scape: 14-day free trial, no account or card. Then Pro at $9.99 a month or $99 a year; you bring your own agent subscriptions.

Cursor: A free plan and paid plans. Cloud agents and Automations need a higher plan than the entry one. See Cursor's pricing page for current prices.[3][4]

Open source

Scape: No.

Cursor: No.

“No” means it isn’t in Cursor’s app or docs: we checked their own site, docs, changelog and repo on , and only count a feature that’s built in and does the same job. If that’s changed, tell us and we’ll update the page.

Why people pick Scape

  • Hand an Argus the whole job. Give it the goal and your guardrails. It starts your agents with the routine permissions already granted, checks on them, and only brings you the decisions that are yours to make.
  • Solve the problem in front of you. Ask your agents for a Custom App, a playbook or a table that does the job: a morning incident triage, a launch tracker that refreshes itself on a schedule, a report that lands in your notes. Code is only part of the work.
  • Let your agents talk to each other. Put Claude and Codex in one room to argue out a fix while you read along, or have one session hand work to another. Any agent, any model, on the subscriptions you already pay for.
  • Work with your team, privately. Bring your whole team and everyone's agents into a Flight Plan. Each open question is a thread, the answers land in the doc as decisions and tasks, and a task can go straight to an agent. Talk in end-to-end encrypted rooms: messages aren't stored on a server, and you can run the relay yourself.
  • Own your AI setup. Your apps, playbooks and tables live on your Mac, and your notes sync through your own iCloud. Switch the agent or model underneath them whenever you like, and everything you built keeps working.

Using Scape with Cursor

Scape runs Cursor's CLI agent (cursor-agent) as one of its eight agents, on your Cursor account. Keep Cursor as your editor, and use Scape when you want Cursor's agent next to Claude Code or Codex in one window, with playbooks, tables and Argus around them.

Where Cursor is stronger

  • Cloud agents that keep running in their own machines and come back with screenshots, videos and logs.[7]
  • Start agents from iOS or the web, as well as Slack, GitHub, Linear or an API.[7]

Sources

Facts about Cursor were checked on and may have changed since. Something wrong? Email contact@scape.work and we’ll fix it.

  1. Cursor docs: Agents Window
  2. Cursor: download
  3. Cursor docs: models and pricing
  4. Cursor: pricing
  5. Cursor docs: worktrees
  6. Cursor docs: Automations
  7. Cursor docs: cloud agents
  8. cursor.com/docs/subagents
  9. cursor.com/docs/agent/security/run-modes
  10. cursor.com/help/ai-features/shared-transcripts
  11. cursor.com/docs/agent/tools/canvas
  12. cursor.com/docs/integrations/linear
  13. cursor.com/docs/agent/tools/browser
  14. cursor.com/changelog