Ask mode
Read-only chat. The model can see your code and answer questions about it, but cannot edit files or run commands. Useful when you want to understand something rather than change it.
Where it comes up
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“repo get populated out with some um with some cobalt code. Uh, >> and Mark, one thing that we're kind of seeing in the chat here I think that might make sense to to cover live is just how you think about model selection depending on, you kn…”
Cursor 101
“into what I call ask mode. Now, ask mode, we're still interacting with the same model, the same large language model, but by changing our mode within Cursor, it changes the tool set that's available to that model. So, in ask mode, we have a…”
Cursor CLI
“and that's going to open up, uh, the Cursor agent, as you can see here. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Cursor, and maybe familiar with the Cursor IDE or Cursor 3, just working in a in a different kind of surface, one thing that…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“>> Noah, can you open uh in full screen and make it a little bit bigger for the folks? >> Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for that call out. Um, cool. So, um, yeah. So, that's that's the multi-reo workspace is really important and something tha…”
Cursor for Data Science
“about ask mode is that ask mode never does any implementation. Um it only does like question answering. So I can be a non-technical person. I can be a PM maybe or I can be a manager. Um that just opens up this notebook inside cursor and use…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“all the chats I had with Intelligj. And um down here you can have different modes. You have ask mode, plan mode, and agent mode. Um later on I'll dig deeper into plan mode, but right now let's focus on ask mode here. And on the right hand s…”
Cursor 201
“Um some of the foundational stuff that we we talk about in the 101 are the different modes that are available to you. So, typically like when I'm when I'm starting out in a in a code base for the first time, um I go into ask mode. The nice…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“actually going to change from agent mode into ask mode. Uh and what ask mode does is it blocks the agent's ability to write code or change any files. So what we're focused on here is just exploring the repository, getting an understanding o…”
Cursor for Designers
“And then if you just have any questions that you want to ask your code base, which I know sometimes designers and PMs do a lot, you would go into ask mode. And ask mode is just a no execution mode that allows you to just interact with Curso…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“If you're interested in reading our CEO's take on all of this, we recently released an article I believe in March called the third kind of era of software development where where Michael actually goes in detail kind of where we're at in ter…”
Cursor 201
“Use it when creating or updating linear tickets. Let's strict template. So after I I enter all of these questions, Cursor is going to going to go ahead and create this skill in my project repo. So I'm going to actually stop that cuz we don'…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“is being dedicated towards new feature development or bug fixes or ongoing maintenance work. You can also see a breakdown of you know the the percentage of uh agent modes, right? We talked about plan mode, ask mode, agent mode writing code,…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“agents in parallel to do the task. I actually tried it out for the first time yesterday. This is a recent launch and it created two PRs in parallel. Um and then, we have ask mode, which is just a read-only view on your codebase, which is gr…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“but you can also toggle to plan, debug, and ask mode. And in this case, we're going to start with the plan mode. And then you also have the ability to select different models. So you'll look and see here that there are a lot of models that…”
PRD to PR
“Uh and that way you can kind of walk through how uh to debug different issues. And then we have ask mode, which basically doesn't output anything. It will just search your code base, try to answer your questions, and really really helpful f…”