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Install and authenticate Cursor's cursor-agent inside Daintree, including the per-OS credential paths and why Daintree does not resume Cursor sessions.

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Cursor's cursor-agent is its CLI coding agent. It runs as a process in its own Daintree terminal panel with full PTY emulation, like every other built-in agent.

Commandcursor-agent
Shortcut— (assignable in Keyboard settings)
RenderingAlt-screen — Cursor draws its own full-screen TUI
ResumeNone. Daintree captures no session ID for Cursor
Quit command— (no slash-quit; Daintree closes the process)
Permission bypass--force
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux

Install & Authenticate

Sign in with cursor-agent login, which opens a browser. Cursor's own docs write the same command as agent login. For headless machines and CI, set CURSOR_API_KEY instead. Daintree checks for the credential file at the path below to decide whether Cursor is authenticated.

curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash

Credentials: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/storage.json

Note
Newer Cursor builds keep the token in the OS keychain rather than storage.json. Daintree's file probe misses those, so the agent shows as needing login even when you're signed in. It still launches and runs normally — the probe is a hint, not a gate.

Resuming Sessions

Daintree does not resume Cursor. The agent registry declares no resume path for it, so no session ID is captured on shutdown and relaunching starts a fresh conversation. What Daintree still keeps is the panel itself: scrollback is serialized to disk and replayed on restart, and the panel's position in the grid survives a project switch. See Session Management for what persists.

Launch flags, custom presets and display titles are covered in Agent Presets. What the working, waiting and exited badges on a running agent mean is covered in Agent States.

Tip
If cursor-agent isn't detected after install, confirm it's on your PATH (which cursor-agent on macOS/Linux, where cursor-agent on Windows), then restart Daintree. Cursor reports its version with cursor-agent -v, not --version, which is the probe Daintree uses.