Updated Sep 24, 2026
Cursor
Cursor develops AI coding agents and describes contextual safeguards that allow low-stakes agent actions to proceed while reviewing actions that cross meaningful risk boundaries. It provides code-data privacy controls, contractual deletion provisions, security testing, and community rules against harassment.
Closest models
11-way tie
69-73% on 7 of 12 dimensions
- Gemini 3.8 Flash73%
- Kimi K373%
- GPT-6 Astra73%
- Claude Opus 573%
- Grok 4.673%
- Llama 4 Maverick73%
- GPT-5.6 Luna70%
- Claude Sonnet 570%
- GPT-5.6 Terra70%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash70%
- Qwen3.8 Max 090269%
These models are too close to separate: each is within three points of the leader, or would lead if one dimension were left out. For scale, a model answering 50 on every one of these dimensions would score 64%.
Values map
Cursor and Gemini 3.8 Flash
Solid company lines join verified positions. Dashed sections cross unknown axes without assigning a value.
Distribution
Purpose
Worker voice
Equality
Speech
Privacy
Regulation
Global outlook
Social change
Environment
Tech pace
AI autonomy
A higher position means closer to the second endpoint. It does not mean better. The Concord Index measures agreement, not quality or safety.
The score covers 7 of 12 dimensions. The others have no verified public position and are not measured.
Most in sync
Social change
Worth a closer look
AI autonomy
50% match. Inspect the questions and evidence below.
Compare every model.
The range shows the lowest and highest result observed across repeated questions. It is not a confidence interval.
Evidence summary.
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Distribution
Market allocation ↔ Redistribution
Not verified
No company position
No qualifying public compensation, ownership, or pay-equity policy is established.
Purpose
Shareholder returns ↔ Stakeholder welfare
Not verified
No company position
The verified quotation does not contain the wording its evidence anchor requires.
“Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.”
Cursor · Software Engineer, RL Environments
Worker voice
Management discretion ↔ Employee influence
Not verified
No company position
No qualifying policy on worker grievance channels, representation, or collective bargaining is established.
Equality
Uniform treatment ↔ Targeted measures
25%
Company position toward targeted measures
Cursor states an equal-employment-opportunity standard for applicants and employees.
“Anysphere, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or an”
Cursor · Solutions Architect
Speech
Broad expression ↔ Protective moderation
75%
Company position toward protective moderation
Hosted community rules prohibit harassment, hate speech, personal attacks, and trolling.
“No harassment, no hate speech, no personal attacks, no trolling.”
Cursor Community Forum Guidelines - Meta - Cursor - Community Forum
Privacy
Individual privacy ↔ Collective oversight
0%
Company position toward collective oversight
The DPA limits processing to service purposes and provides for deletion or return of personal data at service end on request.
“Vendor shall only process Personal Data: (i) to perform the Service as further described in Annex 1, and in accordance with and for the purposes set out in the documented instructions from Customer from time to t”
Cursor · Data Processing Addendum
“At Customer’s written direction, Vendor shall delete or return all Personal Data to Customer as requested at the end of the provision of the Service, within thirty (30) days of such request, unless retention of the Personal Data is required by law, and upon request shall provide written certification thereof.”
Cursor · Data Processing Addendum
Regulation
Voluntary standards ↔ Public regulation
0%
Company position toward public regulation
Cursor states that it holds named voluntary certifications and a SOC 2 attestation.
“Cursor holds AIUC-1, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certifications, along with a SOC 2 Type II attestation.”
Cursor · Security
Global outlook
Local priority ↔ International openness
Not verified
No company position
The verified quotation does not contain the wording its evidence anchor requires.
“Account Executive - Commercial Sales·Full-time·Singapore Apply → Account Executive, Commercial Sales·Full-time·London Apply →”
Cursor · Careers
“Solutions Architect - Australia Customer Success·Full-time·Australia Apply → Solutions Architect - India Solutions·Full-time·Bengaluru; New Delhi; Mumbai Apply → Solutions Architect - Japan Customer Success·Full-time·Japan Apply →”
Cursor · Careers
Social change
Continuity ↔ Experimentation
75%
Company position toward experimentation
Cursor describes invention as an operating principle and documents testing features in a staging team before broad release.
“We are a group of researchers, engineers, and technologists inventing at the edge of what's useful and possible. We have much to learn, try, and build.”
AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software | Cursor
“We have set up a separate staging team that tries out new Cursor features before they are released broadly to all our engineers.”
Introducing organizations for Cursor Enterprise · Cursor
Environment
Near-term growth ↔ Ecological restraint
Not verified
No company position
No public environmental target or ecological operating requirement is established.
Tech pace
Rapid advancement ↔ Precaution
75%
Company position toward precaution
Cursor documents pre-release staging, security testing, and contextual review of agent actions before they run.
“These users test features in a sandboxed environment before they are rolled out more broadly to the full company.”
Introducing organizations for Cursor Enterprise · Cursor
“Application Security: Secure software development practices, including code reviews and security testing, are followed, and web application firewalls are used to protect against common web exploits.”
Cursor · Data Processing Addendum
“We determine where an action sits along that continuum with a specialized classifier agent that reviews actions in context before they run.”
Governing agent autonomy with Auto-review · Cursor
AI autonomy
Delegated autonomy ↔ Human authority
0%
Company position toward human authority
Cursor supports agent autonomy for lower-stakes work while applying contextual review at meaningful boundaries.
“The core idea is that an agent should be able to move freely when the stakes are low, but slow down when its next action crosses a meaningful boundary.”
Governing agent autonomy with Auto-review · Cursor
Leadership context and reported tensions
Personal opinions are kept separate from the company profile. Reported conduct does not silently replace stated commitments.
Cursor describes both meaningful agent autonomy for low-stakes actions and contextual review or slowing when an action crosses a meaningful risk boundary. cursor.com
Protocol values-2026-09-v8. Panel representative-2026-09-v11. Report version d2aafb22-891b-4044-9573-25e99729f123.