Agent Economics
Cursor’s efficiency work puts the agent harness on the cost ledger
The September efficiency release shows how prompt structure, tool loading, and caching affect the price of autonomous work.
Subject desk / 3 analyses
Agent Economics
The cost of completed work, not just generated tokens.
Cursor’s efficiency work puts the agent harness on the cost ledger ↗From the desk
Agent Economics
Cursor Router makes model selection part of the agent’s work
The July launch and August engineering account explain the signals behind automated model choice—and what those signals cannot prove.
Agent Economics
Long-running agents make context an operating expense
Cursor’s efficiency changes and Anthropic’s context architecture show why useful memory must be selective, inspectable, and refreshable.