Cursor Agent

HAPI supports Cursor Agent CLI for running Cursor's AI coding agent with remote control via web and phone.

Prerequisites

Install Cursor Agent CLI:

• macOS/Linux: curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash
• Windows: irm 'https://cursor.com/install?win32=true' | iex

Verify installation:

agent --version

Usage

hapi cursor                    # Start Cursor Agent session
hapi cursor resume <chatId>    # Resume a specific chat
hapi cursor --continue         # Resume the most recent chat
hapi cursor --mode plan        # Start in Plan mode
hapi cursor --mode ask         # Start in Ask mode
hapi cursor --auto-review      # Start with Auto-review (Smart Auto)
hapi cursor --yolo             # Bypass approval prompts (--force)
hapi cursor --model <model>    # Specify model
hapi cursor --cursor-worktree feature-x   # Cursor-native worktree
hapi cursor --cursor-add-dir ../shared    # Extra workspace root (repeatable)

Permission Modes

Mode	Description
default	Standard agent behavior
plan	Plan mode - design approach before coding
ask	Ask mode - explore code without edits
debug	Debug mode - hypotheses + instrumentation
autoReview	Auto-review (Smart Auto) - allowlist/sandbox/classifier instead of full YOLO
yolo	Bypass approval prompts

Set mode via --mode / --permission-mode / --auto-review, or change from the web UI during a session.

Cursor-native worktree & multi-root

• New Session Worktree for Cursor uses Cursor's --worktree (~/.cursor/worktrees/<repo>/<name>), not HAPI's sibling-directory worktree.
• Mid-session: send /worktree, /apply-worktree, /delete-worktree, or /add-dir <path> (isolated pass-through).
• CLI: hapi cursor --cursor-worktree feature-x --cursor-add-dir ../shared

Slash pass-through (remote)

These commands are isolated in the queue and forwarded to the agent (ACP prompt or legacy -p):

/compress /summarize /compact /model /multitask /best-of-n /worktree /apply-worktree /delete-worktree /add-dir /context /fork /auto-review

Interactive TUI-only commands (/config, /mcp, /sandbox, /btw, /rewind, …) are not supported remotely.

Modes

• Local mode - Run hapi cursor from terminal. Full interactive experience.
• Remote mode - Spawn from web/phone when no terminal. New Cursor sessions use agent acp with HAPI permission approval, plan/question UI, and richer tool updates. Legacy sessions created before the ACP migration may still resume via the old agent -p stream-json path temporarily.

Limitations

• Multitask UI - /multitask is slash-driven; HAPI does not yet provide an Agents Window-style fleet pane. Subagent cursor/task notifications show as CursorTask cards when the agent emits them.
• Legacy sessions - Cursor sessions created before the ACP migration can still resume temporarily via stream-json. Start a new Cursor session to get ACP permissions, plans, todos, and question support.
• Session resume - ACP sessions resume through session/load. Old stream-json session_id values are not loadable via ACP; those sessions keep using the legacy path until you start fresh.

Legacy stream-json safety: AskQuestion behavior

New cursor remote sessions go through ACP, which handles AskQuestion via the bidirectional cursor/ask_question extension method and is immune to the issue below. The intercept described here exists only for legacy sessions that resume via the older agent -p stream-json launcher.

When running cursor-agent under --print --output-format stream-json, the cursor-agent CLI returns a synthetic Questions skipped by the user, continue with the information you already have response for the AskQuestion tool because there is no IDE surface to render the question. The agent's underlying model can interpret this as legitimate user consent and act on it.

HAPI's legacy event converter intercepts this synthetic response and rewrites it to an explicit no_input_surface error (status: failed), so downstream consumers (web UI, Telegram, log readers) surface the fabrication as an error instead of silently passing through fabricated consent. The intercept scans the raw tool_call payload for the literal marker text and is scoped to AskQuestion-shaped (and converter-fallback name=unknown) calls; legitimate read/write/function tools are not affected.

The intercept drains naturally with the legacy session population - resumed pre-ACP sessions are the only path that still hits this code.

Tracking issue: tiann/hapi#784.

Integration

Once running, your Cursor session appears in the HAPI web app and Telegram Mini App. You can:

• Monitor session activity
• Approve permissions from your phone
• Send messages when in local mode (messages queue for when you switch)

Related

• Cursor CLI Documentation
• How it Works - Architecture and data flow