context window
The total amount of text a model can hold at once — your prompt, the code you attached, and its own reply, all counted together. Go over it and the earliest material has to be dropped.
Where it comes up
Cursor 101
“Yeah, it's not fast model exclusive. The fast model just goes faster and for the sake of a demo I love using it. Um or maybe I'm just impatient but um Why does it go better? I think it's very similar, you know, we talked about context windo…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“example, I might enter in asterisk.p py and then these rules would only apply to files with a py extension or I have apply manually. And with an apply manually rule, I can be typing in a prompt and when I want to invoke that rule, I hit the…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“which kind of in its simplest form will surface as uh uh code uh u uh line completion of code. So it will suggest how to maybe write a next line uh in your um file. Uh and then it will go all the way to uh suggesting navigations to differen…”
Cursor 201
“to the to the next task. And so, there there are a couple areas where, um, I'll I'll talk about sub agents in a in a second in in a in a slightly different context. But for now, I'm just going to spin up a spin up a new agent here, um, whic…”
Cursor for Data Science
“you using uh tokens in your context window. So, for context, sorry. Um, this is a context window. Uh, a chat contains a context window. And you can see how much of your context window is filled with this little thing at the bottom. Um, let…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“And then we'll talk a lot about context windows. Context windows are finite and bad hygiene can really add a lot of noise and ultimately cost to these workflows. And then I don't want to I don't want anyone to walk away scared to use the pr…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“it works to just like go with the fastest model and you and you know you'll still get a good uh output. >> Zoe, do you see any more questions in chat? I'm seeing a ton trying to figure out which ones um would be best. I know there's a lot o…”
Cursor CLI
“This feature should show all the feature flags that we expose. So, now I'm going to that we expose. So, now I'm going to have a couple of different couple different agents with a couple of different models going ahead and building plans tha…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“generation of models is not good enough to do that in one shot. There's just no way. It's way too much work. You have a limited context window. So for something like Opus or GPT, this is like 200,000 tokens. It's just not doable. One thing…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“this process that I can kind of uh have another agent take care of. And, uh what it'll do is it'll launch a sub agent, which is essentially a worker, uh totally paralyzed worker that is, uh has a different context window than the default ag…”
Cursor 201
“in mind with sub agents is that uh they have their own isolated context window. So, how it works is that the main agent, when it spawns a sub agent, um it will give it kind of just the context uh information that it needs to do its specific…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“be something that I like fully understand, but it has 100% caught on many cases like things that I would have missed myself. >> And then I know some folks are asking about context window. Um how what is your kind of thought process? I know…”
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“me make changes, uh you see this little context gauge. This context gauge is going to tell you the exact percentage of the context window that you've used and the active rules that are applied in your application. So we have about uh 32.9%…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“is there is definitely a consideration around using rules because you everything that you're adding into each prompt is obviously adding more to your sort of context window and the more rules that you're applying the the denser your context…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“30 minute mark. Whereas, if you open up a new chat, it's a completely fresh context window, you might perform a lot better. And research has shown that if you fill up the context window, the model tends to degrade. Doesn't matter how great…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“yeah, there are ways to achieve this. I do think that um some elements of cursor operate within the the framework of LLMs have limited context windows and as the technology gets better that's definitely going to increase over time but or ca…”
Cursor 101
“Uh let me see if I can get more specifics on that. So, and just so you guys know what I'm doing, I'm going right now to the documents uh a documentation and typing in max mode. Just so you guys get into that like habit. When you have some q…”
Cursor for Finance Teams
“conversation has memory. Um so, you build on each step and then I think that's what actually makes it really, really powerful. You actually um uh can kind of iterate as you go and it can understand through kind of the context window and the…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“They're more so uh just like static context that you added to the context window. So prefer for that. >> Uh you go there's a oh sorry there was a webinar question around can we integrate bugbot into the code before code checkin like a plugi…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“wanted to take a step back and dive a little bit in more detail. So, we looked at the model picker. Um but models typically have three different flavors. Um one is intelligence. And so, you can imagine I can use the 1 million context window…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“this Cursor instance itself. And once that is kind of completed and done, then you're going to have uh the full kind of, you know, cursor agentic experience but now, you know, fully integrated into uh Android Studio, right? So, what that is…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“have access to cursor rules commands. Note that these are more advanced than simple markdown files because cursor can help you inject these in the context window or apply them intelligently. So it's a little bit more advanced than say just…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“going to be included in the context window each time, giving you some token savings. And then, the Cursor indexing mechanism behind the scenes is allowing the agent to perform semantic search and pull in the most relevant files and lines of…”
PRD to PR
“refactors hard problems right? Um and you can see that this this agent actually deployed multiple sub agents. So in a in a brief words sub agents are basically you know smaller agents that are all working in parallel they all have their own…”
Training Composer 2
“To facilitate this process, we started with a strong base model. So, we used Kimmy K 2.5 as the base model for our system. This model has 1 trillion parameters with 32 billion activated parameters. This is 61 layers and a context length of…”