Article URL: https://github.com/hkc5/cursor-bridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063186 Points: 15 # Comments: 18

You have a Cursor subscription. You want to use Claude Code (the CLI). Cursor's Auto model is included with your subscription — free, unlimited, no extra per-token cost. Without cursor-bridge, you'd pay separately for Anthropic API credits or a Claude Pro plan. With cursor-bridge, you just run cursor-bridge and it works — Claude Code runs on your Cursor backend. All other solutions are background servers you manage. cursor-bridge is a command you run. Existing proxies (cursor-api-proxy, cursor-composer-in-claude, cursor-proxy) are Node.js servers that live in your process list, occupy a port, and need manual env var wiring. They don't ship with Claude Code — they sit between you and it, adding ceremony. cursor-bridge is the opposite. There is nothing to start, stop, or configure. It is the session: No daemon. No npm install. No env vars. No port hunting. No cleanup. Just a single binary that works. cursor-bridge replaces claude entirely — it manages the proxy lifecycle internally, spawns the CLI, and cleans up after itself when you're done. This project is not affiliated with Anthropic or Cursor/Anysphere. Use at your own risk.