Cursor vs Depot
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Cursor builds out the agent platform: SDK custom tools, Design Mode, enterprise orgs.
Cursor is converging on an agent-first IDE where work happens through SDK-driven agents, visual Design Mode editing, and managed cloud automations. Recent releases extend the programmable surface (custom tools, nested subagents, auto-review) while Design Mode spreads from the browser into canvases with multi-select and voice. In parallel, Cursor is hardening enterprise controls — Organizations, model access policies, and spend management.
The direction is clear: make Cursor agents both more programmable and more governable. The SDK work points at production and CI use well beyond the editor, while Design Mode and canvases lower the bar for non-text-driven iteration. Enterprise plumbing — orgs, teams, budgets, model controls — signals a serious upmarket push.
Expect the SDK and automations surface to keep expanding toward fully programmatic, multi-repo agent fleets, with more enterprise governance landing as GA on top of the new Organizations model.
Depot pushes its CI product toward agent control and test intelligence as it nears platform maturity.
Depot accelerates container builds and CI, and the recent stretch is almost entirely about maturing Depot CI from runner into platform. In a single window it shipped a GA API and CLI, a test-results product with cross-provider analytics, plus workflow browsing, usage tracking, nested virtualization, and AI failure diagnosis via Sherlock.
Depot is making Depot CI both programmable and observable: the GA API and CLI expose every dashboard action to scripts and agents, while test results and Sherlock add the diagnostic layer on top. Notably, the test analytics reach into GitHub Actions too — a wedge to pull Actions users onto Depot without forcing a full migration first.
Expect the API surface and test analytics to deepen together — agent-driven retries informed by flaky-test detection — as Depot positions CI as something agents operate, not just humans.
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