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dependency

A library your project needs in order to run. Each one is code you did not write and are nonetheless responsible for.

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Where it comes up

Cursor for Sales Engineers

Nov 12, 2025first said at 15:115 mentions

“prompt uh to take three, four, five minutes to analyze a very very complex codebase. So there's always this balance that I'm considering um of uh a real world example, some level of complexity. So it's not just maybe a single file that's uh…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 5:153 mentions

“And so just to kind of go at a high level, this is what typically our context session looks like. So a rule could be always use this dependency. A [snorts] command could be something like uh a checklist of steps to go through like for examp…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 13:103 mentions

“Use the linear MCP server and create a plan for executing phase three of our migration. >> [snorts] >> I don't want to execute on phase three yet just because uh there there may be some dependencies, but we could go ahead and launch creatin…”

Cloud Agents

Mar 19, 2026first said at 7:492 mentions

“here. The first is that you have this really great setup where you have the repository uh development environment being set up on the left, um all the dependencies being installed, and then you have um what we call the cloud agent UI on the…”

Cursor 101

May 7, 2026first said at 50:091 mention

“Um, but sorry I don't have a better answer there. Got you. Um And then one more follow-up on the multi-repo question. Multi-repo dependencies would require more than one repo to run the app. So, not sure if that trick would would work. I'm…”

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 14:401 mention

“and start building this out. We can just kind of see what's happening here. It's installing some dependencies for our OM uh which is basically a wrapper on the database. It's uh setting up some things in our EMV file. Setting up our drizzle…”

Cursor for Designers

Apr 21, 2026first said at 37:401 mention

“built. Another common one is like dependency health or just dashboard health generally. Cursor builds a canvas for you that kind of just visualizes that. So notice that I didn't say anything about you know, build me something in React or us…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 0:591 mention

“so much more than just an editor. Firstly, Cursor has full semantic awareness of your entire codebase. That includes things like files, dependencies, and team conventions. And on top of the editor, we also offer native AI workflows. things…”

Cursor x Slack

Apr 27, 2026first said at 41:501 mention

“This will basically just take a snapshot of your code base and install any dependencies and environment that you need using sort of any environment variables that we give it. Once that's done then we can go over to our agent sort of dashboa…”

How Cursor uses Cursor

Apr 9, 2026first said at 21:001 mention

“For larger organizations, this is extremely useful for things like large refactors where you might need to go across an entire code base and upgrade um a language or upgrade different dependencies and you want to make sure that agent has a…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

Jan 8, 2026first said at 1:241 mention

“migrations. So in this blog post I talk a little bit about how we were questioning some of the decisions whether we needed these abstractions. Do you need the CMS? Do you need these layers between the code? This was one type of migration. A…”

Training Composer 2

May 14, 2026first said at 8:151 mention

“Um and it will even go to further extremes. It'll try to make sure the test pass. It'll mock up various dependencies. It'll install other packages that maybe didn't work on the first try. If it can pass the verification from stage one, we c…”