diff --git a/docs/cursor-integration.md b/docs/cursor-integration.md
index 1aa32cda..3fa9897d 100644
--- a/docs/cursor-integration.md
+++ b/docs/cursor-integration.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ This guide covers the local Cursor integration in CCS, including CLI setup, daem
 ## What It Provides
 
 - OpenAI-compatible local endpoint powered by Cursor credentials.
+- Anthropic-compatible local endpoint at `/v1/messages` for Claude-native clients.
 - Cursor model list and chat completions via local daemon.
 - Dedicated dashboard page: `ccs config` -> `Cursor IDE`.
 
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ ccs cursor stop
 - `auto_start`: disabled
 - Model list resolution: authenticated live fetch when available, with cached/default fallback.
 - Request model validation: if a requested model is not present in the available Cursor model catalog, daemon falls back to the resolved default model.
+- Daemon API surface: `POST /v1/chat/completions`, `POST /v1/messages`, and `GET /v1/models`.
 
 These values are managed in unified config and can be updated from CLI or dashboard.
 
diff --git a/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-response.ts b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-response.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ddf31803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-response.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+import { DeltaAccumulator } from '../glmt/delta-accumulator';
+import { GlmtTransformer } from '../glmt/glmt-transformer';
+import { SSEParser } from '../glmt/sse-parser';
+import type { OpenAIResponse, SSEEvent } from '../glmt/pipeline';
+
+function createErrorResponse(message: string): Response {
+  return new Response(
+    JSON.stringify({
+      error: {
+        type: 'api_error',
+        message,
+      },
+    }),
+    {
+      status: 502,
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    }
+  );
+}
+
+function formatSseEvent(event: string, data: Record<string, unknown>): string {
+  return `event: ${event}\ndata: ${JSON.stringify(data)}\n\n`;
+}
+
+async function createAnthropicJsonResponse(response: Response): Promise<Response> {
+  try {
+    const openAiResponse = (await response.json()) as OpenAIResponse;
+    const anthropicResponse = new GlmtTransformer().transformResponse(openAiResponse);
+    return new Response(JSON.stringify(anthropicResponse), {
+      status: response.status,
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    });
+  } catch (error) {
+    return createErrorResponse(
+      `Failed to translate Cursor JSON response: ${(error as Error).message}`
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+function createAnthropicStreamingResponse(response: Response): Response {
+  const body = response.body;
+  if (!body) {
+    return createErrorResponse('Cursor stream ended before a response body was available');
+  }
+
+  const parser = new SSEParser();
+  const transformer = new GlmtTransformer();
+  const accumulator = new DeltaAccumulator({});
+  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+
+  const readable = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+    async start(controller) {
+      const reader = body.getReader();
+
+      try {
+        while (true) {
+          const { done, value } = await reader.read();
+          if (done) {
+            break;
+          }
+          if (!value) {
+            continue;
+          }
+
+          const events = parser.parse(Buffer.from(value));
+          events.forEach((event) => {
+            const anthropicEvents = transformer.transformDelta(event as SSEEvent, accumulator);
+            anthropicEvents.forEach((anthropicEvent) => {
+              controller.enqueue(
+                encoder.encode(formatSseEvent(anthropicEvent.event, anthropicEvent.data))
+              );
+            });
+          });
+        }
+
+        if (!accumulator.isFinalized() && accumulator.isMessageStarted()) {
+          transformer.finalizeDelta(accumulator).forEach((anthropicEvent) => {
+            controller.enqueue(
+              encoder.encode(formatSseEvent(anthropicEvent.event, anthropicEvent.data))
+            );
+          });
+        }
+      } catch (error) {
+        controller.enqueue(
+          encoder.encode(
+            formatSseEvent('error', {
+              type: 'error',
+              error: {
+                type: 'api_error',
+                message: `Failed to translate Cursor SSE response: ${(error as Error).message}`,
+              },
+            })
+          )
+        );
+      } finally {
+        reader.releaseLock();
+        controller.close();
+      }
+    },
+  });
+
+  return new Response(readable, {
+    status: response.status,
+    headers: {
+      'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream',
+      'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+      Connection: 'keep-alive',
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+export async function createAnthropicProxyResponse(response: Response): Promise<Response> {
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    return response;
+  }
+
+  const contentType = response.headers.get('content-type') || '';
+  return contentType.includes('text/event-stream')
+    ? createAnthropicStreamingResponse(response)
+    : createAnthropicJsonResponse(response);
+}
diff --git a/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.ts b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c84cdb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+import type { CursorTool } from './cursor-protobuf-schema';
+import type {
+  AnthropicContentBlock,
+  CursorAnthropicRequest,
+  CursorOpenAIMessage,
+} from './cursor-anthropic-types';
+
+export interface TranslatedAnthropicRequest {
+  model?: string;
+  stream: boolean;
+  reasoning_effort?: string;
+  tools?: CursorTool[];
+  messages: CursorOpenAIMessage[];
+}
+
+function assertObject(value: unknown, label: string): Record<string, unknown> {
+  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) {
+    throw new Error(`${label} must be an object`);
+  }
+  return value as Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+function flattenTextContent(content: unknown, label: string): string {
+  if (typeof content === 'string') {
+    return content;
+  }
+  if (!Array.isArray(content)) {
+    throw new Error(`${label} must be a string or content block array`);
+  }
+
+  return content
+    .map((block, index) => {
+      const parsed = assertObject(block, `${label}[${index}]`);
+      if (parsed.type !== 'text') {
+        throw new Error(`${label}[${index}].type "${String(parsed.type)}" is not supported`);
+      }
+      return typeof parsed.text === 'string' ? parsed.text : '';
+    })
+    .join('\n');
+}
+
+function toToolResultContent(content: unknown, label: string): string {
+  if (content === undefined) {
+    return '';
+  }
+  if (typeof content === 'string') {
+    return content;
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(content)) {
+    return flattenTextContent(content, label);
+  }
+  return JSON.stringify(content);
+}
+
+function mapThinkingToReasoningEffort(
+  thinking: CursorAnthropicRequest['thinking']
+): string | undefined {
+  if (!thinking) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  if (thinking.type === 'disabled') {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  if (thinking.type !== 'enabled') {
+    throw new Error('thinking.type must be "enabled" or "disabled"');
+  }
+  return typeof thinking.budget_tokens === 'number' && thinking.budget_tokens >= 8192
+    ? 'high'
+    : 'medium';
+}
+
+export function translateAnthropicRequest(raw: unknown): TranslatedAnthropicRequest {
+  const request = assertObject(raw, 'request') as CursorAnthropicRequest;
+  const translatedMessages: CursorOpenAIMessage[] = [];
+
+  if (request.system !== undefined) {
+    translatedMessages.push({
+      role: 'system',
+      content: flattenTextContent(request.system, 'system'),
+    });
+  }
+
+  if (!Array.isArray(request.messages)) {
+    throw new Error('messages must be an array');
+  }
+
+  request.messages.forEach((message, messageIndex) => {
+    const role = message.role;
+    if (role !== 'user' && role !== 'assistant') {
+      throw new Error(`messages[${messageIndex}].role must be "user" or "assistant"`);
+    }
+
+    const content = message.content;
+    if (typeof content === 'string') {
+      translatedMessages.push({ role, content });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (!Array.isArray(content)) {
+      throw new Error(`messages[${messageIndex}].content must be a string or array`);
+    }
+
+    const textParts: string[] = [];
+    const toolCalls: NonNullable<CursorOpenAIMessage['tool_calls']> = [];
+
+    content.forEach((block, blockIndex) => {
+      const parsed = assertObject(
+        block,
+        `messages[${messageIndex}].content[${blockIndex}]`
+      ) as unknown as AnthropicContentBlock;
+
+      if (parsed.type === 'text') {
+        textParts.push(typeof parsed.text === 'string' ? parsed.text : '');
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (parsed.type === 'tool_use') {
+        if (role !== 'assistant') {
+          throw new Error(
+            `messages[${messageIndex}].content[${blockIndex}] tool_use requires assistant role`
+          );
+        }
+        toolCalls.push({
+          id:
+            typeof parsed.id === 'string' && parsed.id.length > 0
+              ? parsed.id
+              : `toolu_${messageIndex}_${blockIndex}`,
+          type: 'function',
+          function: {
+            name: typeof parsed.name === 'string' ? parsed.name : 'tool',
+            arguments: JSON.stringify(parsed.input ?? {}),
+          },
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (parsed.type === 'tool_result') {
+        if (role !== 'user') {
+          throw new Error(
+            `messages[${messageIndex}].content[${blockIndex}] tool_result requires user role`
+          );
+        }
+        translatedMessages.push({
+          role: 'tool',
+          tool_call_id: typeof parsed.tool_use_id === 'string' ? parsed.tool_use_id : '',
+          content: toToolResultContent(
+            parsed.content,
+            `messages[${messageIndex}].content[${blockIndex}].content`
+          ),
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+
+      throw new Error(
+        `messages[${messageIndex}].content[${blockIndex}].type "${String((parsed as { type?: unknown }).type)}" is not supported`
+      );
+    });
+
+    if (role === 'assistant') {
+      translatedMessages.push({
+        role,
+        content: textParts.join('\n'),
+        tool_calls: toolCalls.length > 0 ? toolCalls : undefined,
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (textParts.length > 0 || toolCalls.length === 0) {
+      translatedMessages.push({
+        role,
+        content: textParts.join('\n'),
+      });
+    }
+  });
+
+  return {
+    model:
+      typeof request.model === 'string' && request.model.trim().length > 0
+        ? request.model
+        : undefined,
+    stream: request.stream === true,
+    reasoning_effort: mapThinkingToReasoningEffort(request.thinking),
+    tools: Array.isArray(request.tools) ? request.tools : undefined,
+    messages: translatedMessages,
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-types.ts b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..336fb75f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import type { CursorTool } from './cursor-protobuf-schema';
+
+export interface CursorOpenAIMessage {
+  role: string;
+  content: string;
+  name?: string;
+  tool_call_id?: string;
+  tool_calls?: Array<{
+    id: string;
+    type: string;
+    function: { name: string; arguments: string };
+  }>;
+}
+
+export interface AnthropicTextBlock {
+  type: 'text';
+  text?: string;
+}
+
+export interface AnthropicToolUseBlock {
+  type: 'tool_use';
+  id?: string;
+  name?: string;
+  input?: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+export interface AnthropicToolResultBlock {
+  type: 'tool_result';
+  tool_use_id?: string;
+  content?: unknown;
+}
+
+export type AnthropicContentBlock =
+  | AnthropicTextBlock
+  | AnthropicToolUseBlock
+  | AnthropicToolResultBlock;
+
+export interface CursorAnthropicRequest {
+  model?: string;
+  messages?: Array<{ role?: string; content?: string | AnthropicContentBlock[] }>;
+  system?: string | AnthropicTextBlock[];
+  stream?: boolean;
+  tools?: CursorTool[];
+  thinking?: {
+    type?: string;
+    budget_tokens?: number;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/cursor/cursor-daemon-entry.ts b/src/cursor/cursor-daemon-entry.ts
index f6eb2f7d..a9fd1d2d 100644
--- a/src/cursor/cursor-daemon-entry.ts
+++ b/src/cursor/cursor-daemon-entry.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import * as http from 'http';
 import { Readable } from 'stream';
 import { CursorExecutor } from './cursor-executor';
+import { createAnthropicProxyResponse } from './cursor-anthropic-response';
+import { translateAnthropicRequest } from './cursor-anthropic-translator';
 import { checkAuthStatus } from './cursor-auth';
 import { getModelsForDaemon, resolveCursorRequestModel } from './cursor-models';
 import type { CursorTool } from './cursor-protobuf-schema';
@@ -222,13 +224,20 @@ export function startCursorDaemonServer(options: DaemonRuntimeOptions): http.Ser
         return;
       }
 
-      if (method !== 'POST' || requestUrl !== '/v1/chat/completions') {
+      const isOpenAiRoute = method === 'POST' && requestUrl === '/v1/chat/completions';
+      const isAnthropicRoute = method === 'POST' && requestUrl === '/v1/messages';
+
+      if (!isOpenAiRoute && !isAnthropicRoute) {
         writeJson(res, 404, { error: 'Not found' });
         return;
       }
 
-      const parsedBody = (await readJsonBody(req)) as OpenAIChatRequest;
-      const messages = normalizeMessages(parsedBody.messages);
+      const rawBody = await readJsonBody(req);
+      const anthropicBody = isAnthropicRoute ? translateAnthropicRequest(rawBody) : undefined;
+      const parsedBody = anthropicBody ?? ((rawBody as OpenAIChatRequest) || {});
+      const messages = anthropicBody
+        ? anthropicBody.messages
+        : normalizeMessages(parsedBody.messages);
       const requestedModel =
         typeof parsedBody.model === 'string' && parsedBody.model.trim().length > 0
           ? parsedBody.model.trim()
@@ -301,7 +310,11 @@ export function startCursorDaemonServer(options: DaemonRuntimeOptions): http.Ser
         },
       });
 
-      await pipeWebResponseToNode(result.response, res);
+      const outgoingResponse = isAnthropicRoute
+        ? await createAnthropicProxyResponse(result.response)
+        : result.response;
+
+      await pipeWebResponseToNode(outgoingResponse, res);
     } catch (error) {
       const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Unknown error';
       const isPayloadTooLarge = message.includes('Request body too large');
diff --git a/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.test.ts b/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3587b965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'bun:test';
+import { createAnthropicProxyResponse } from '../../../src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-response';
+import { translateAnthropicRequest } from '../../../src/cursor/cursor-anthropic-translator';
+
+describe('translateAnthropicRequest', () => {
+  it('maps Anthropic system, tool use, and tool result blocks into Cursor OpenAI messages', () => {
+    const translated = translateAnthropicRequest({
+      model: 'claude-sonnet-4.5',
+      stream: true,
+      thinking: { type: 'enabled', budget_tokens: 9000 },
+      tools: [{ name: 'search', description: 'Search docs', input_schema: { type: 'object' } }],
+      system: 'You are helpful.',
+      messages: [
+        { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Find release notes' }] },
+        {
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: [{ type: 'tool_use', id: 'toolu_1', name: 'search', input: { q: 'release' } }],
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'user',
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: 'tool_result',
+              tool_use_id: 'toolu_1',
+              content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'v7.53.0' }],
+            },
+            { type: 'text', text: 'Summarize it.' },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    expect(translated.model).toBe('claude-sonnet-4.5');
+    expect(translated.stream).toBe(true);
+    expect(translated.reasoning_effort).toBe('high');
+    expect(translated.messages).toEqual([
+      { role: 'system', content: 'You are helpful.' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'Find release notes' },
+      {
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: '',
+        tool_calls: [
+          {
+            id: 'toolu_1',
+            type: 'function',
+            function: { name: 'search', arguments: '{"q":"release"}' },
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+      { role: 'tool', tool_call_id: 'toolu_1', content: 'v7.53.0' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'Summarize it.' },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects unsupported content blocks', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      translateAnthropicRequest({
+        messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'image' }] }],
+      })
+    ).toThrow('is not supported');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('createAnthropicProxyResponse', () => {
+  it('converts OpenAI JSON into Anthropic message JSON', async () => {
+    const response = new Response(
+      JSON.stringify({
+        id: 'chatcmpl_1',
+        model: 'claude-sonnet-4.5',
+        choices: [
+          {
+            index: 0,
+            message: {
+              role: 'assistant',
+              content: 'Here is the result.',
+              reasoning_content: 'Need to call the tool first.',
+              tool_calls: [
+                {
+                  id: 'toolu_2',
+                  type: 'function',
+                  function: { name: 'search', arguments: '{"q":"cursor daemon"}' },
+                },
+              ],
+            },
+            finish_reason: 'tool_calls',
+          },
+        ],
+        usage: { prompt_tokens: 12, completion_tokens: 4, total_tokens: 16 },
+      }),
+      {
+        status: 200,
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      }
+    );
+
+    const transformed = await createAnthropicProxyResponse(response);
+    const body = (await transformed.json()) as {
+      type: string;
+      model: string;
+      stop_reason: string;
+      content: Array<{
+        type: string;
+        text?: string;
+        thinking?: string;
+        name?: string;
+        input?: Record<string, unknown>;
+      }>;
+    };
+
+    expect(body.type).toBe('message');
+    expect(body.model).toBe('claude-sonnet-4.5');
+    expect(body.stop_reason).toBe('tool_use');
+    expect(body.content.map((block) => block.type)).toEqual(['thinking', 'text', 'tool_use']);
+    expect(body.content[0]?.thinking).toContain('Need to call the tool first');
+    expect(body.content[2]?.name).toBe('search');
+    expect(body.content[2]?.input).toEqual({ q: 'cursor daemon' });
+  });
+
+  it('converts OpenAI SSE chunks into Anthropic SSE events', async () => {
+    const openAiSse = [
+      'data: {"id":"chatcmpl_2","object":"chat.completion.chunk","created":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-4.5","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{"role":"assistant","content":"Hello"},"finish_reason":null}]}\n\n',
+      'data: {"id":"chatcmpl_2","object":"chat.completion.chunk","created":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-4.5","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{},"finish_reason":"stop"}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":5,"completion_tokens":1,"total_tokens":6}}\n\n',
+      'data: [DONE]\n\n',
+    ].join('');
+
+    const transformed = await createAnthropicProxyResponse(
+      new Response(openAiSse, {
+        status: 200,
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream' },
+      })
+    );
+
+    const body = await transformed.text();
+    expect(body).toContain('event: message_start');
+    expect(body).toContain('event: content_block_start');
+    expect(body).toContain('"type":"text_delta"');
+    expect(body).toContain('event: message_stop');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-daemon.test.ts b/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-daemon.test.ts
index 1ba7e553..8bc22d7a 100644
--- a/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-daemon.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/cursor/cursor-daemon.test.ts
@@ -151,34 +151,46 @@ describe('startDaemon', () => {
     const running = await isDaemonRunning(port);
     expect(running).toBe(true);
 
-      // Verify models endpoint exists and is OpenAI-compatible list shape
-      const modelsResponse = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/models`);
-      expect(modelsResponse.status).toBe(200);
-      const modelsJson = (await modelsResponse.json()) as { object?: string; data?: unknown[] };
-      expect(modelsJson.object).toBe('list');
-      expect(Array.isArray(modelsJson.data)).toBe(true);
+    // Verify models endpoint exists and is OpenAI-compatible list shape
+    const modelsResponse = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/models`);
+    expect(modelsResponse.status).toBe(200);
+    const modelsJson = (await modelsResponse.json()) as { object?: string; data?: unknown[] };
+    expect(modelsJson.object).toBe('list');
+    expect(Array.isArray(modelsJson.data)).toBe(true);
 
-      // Verify chat endpoint exists (requires auth, should not be 404)
-      const chatResponse = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/chat/completions`, {
-        method: 'POST',
-        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-        body: JSON.stringify({
-          model: 'gpt-4.1',
-          messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hello' }],
-        }),
-      });
-      expect(chatResponse.status).toBe(401);
+    // Verify chat endpoint exists (requires auth, should not be 404)
+    const chatResponse = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/chat/completions`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({
+        model: 'gpt-4.1',
+        messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hello' }],
+      }),
+    });
+    expect(chatResponse.status).toBe(401);
+
+    const anthropicResponse = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/messages`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+        'anthropic-version': '2023-06-01',
+      },
+      body: JSON.stringify({
+        model: 'claude-sonnet-4.5',
+        max_tokens: 256,
+        messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hello' }],
+      }),
+    });
+    expect(anthropicResponse.status).toBe(401);
 
     // Stop
     const stopResult = await stopDaemon();
     expect(stopResult.success).toBe(true);
 
-      // Verify stopped
-      const stillRunning = await isDaemonRunning(port);
-      expect(stillRunning).toBe(false);
-    },
-    35000
-  );
+    // Verify stopped
+    const stillRunning = await isDaemonRunning(port);
+    expect(stillRunning).toBe(false);
+  }, 35000);
 
   it('returns 404 for unknown routes', async () => {
     const port = 10000 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 50000);
@@ -248,6 +260,20 @@ describe('startDaemon', () => {
       });
       expect(invalidSchema.status).toBe(400);
 
+      const invalidAnthropic = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/messages`, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: {
+          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+          'anthropic-version': '2023-06-01',
+        },
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          model: 'claude-sonnet-4.5',
+          max_tokens: 256,
+          messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'image' }] }],
+        }),
+      });
+      expect(invalidAnthropic.status).toBe(400);
+
       const oversized = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/chat/completions`, {
         method: 'POST',
         headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },