Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
Cursor ACP Now Live in JetBrains IDEs.
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Cursor joined the Agent Client Protocol and is now available inside IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm — requiring only an existing Cursor paid account, no JetBrains AI subscription needed. ACP is an open protocol jointly developed by JetBrains and Zed to make AI coding agents IDE-portable. Full Cursor model lineup with semantic codebase indexing inside your existing IDE. Cursor Blog
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