Topic

Source Code Data Boundaries

Where a customer's code, prompts and agent transcripts travel between the customer's own network and a vendor's systems, and the controls and retention terms governing that movement.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

A long-lived outbound tunnel lets Cursor drive agent commands on machines inside customer networks

Cursor's Self-Hosted Machines move file edits and shell commands onto infrastructure the customer manages, while planning, inference and transcripts stay in Cursor's cloud, so repository content still crosses the boundary on every tool call.

Publishers:cursor.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives86
Confidence62