7% token cost reduction without quality loss
Improvements to Cursor's agent harness across multiple layers reduced user token costs by 7% while maintaining agent quality.
Supporting evidence
Improved token efficiency for longer agent runs · Cursor
Original excerpt
Changes across each of these layers reduced token costs for users by 7% without reducing agent quality.
Context
Over the past few months we've responded to this shift by improving the efficiency of Cursor's agent harness. The harness gives us direct control over how each request is assembled, how context is reused, and when work is divided across agents.