guardrails
The checks around a model rather than inside it — allowlists, approval prompts, sandboxes, review steps. What stops one confident wrong answer from becoming a bad afternoon.
Where it comes up
Cursor 101
“specifically the rules, commands, hooks, and skills. These guidelines [clears throat] and guardrails to help your agent perform better over time. Um you've got Cursor for designers, really helpful. A lot of people love this. Uh Cursor for d…”
Cursor 201
“Thanks Ian. Are you uh could you give some more color on the code quality of the code that cloud agents are are putting through and maybe some of the guardrails that are built in um to make sure that they are running properly. >> Yeah. Yeah…”
Cursor x Slack
“no searching in Slack. There's no DMing somebody like, "Hey, what is this PR about?" Cursor can build like a really nice little section here. And so that is like one of the huge ones I do at Slack. Another cool thing is if I know I mean thi…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“tasks, more autonomous development, and then you know finally uh what we're calling here on the the right hand side is intentoriented product creation. So almost using uh an AI agent as a co-founder or a builder. And I think the key insight…”
Cursor Agent SDK
“pipelines, uh back-end services, and and so forth. Today, what we're going to cover is exactly what the SDK is, why we built it, uh how to build with it. We'll go through a couple of examples um and then talk with any time allowing about so…”
Cursor Automations
“There might be some like missing puzzle pieces here and there, but it can do literally anything. Well, I think folks are getting excited now. There's lots of questions about security. Um I guess I Joseph, this one I'll give it to you, but I…”
Cursor CLI
“that on so that we can actually just have, um, a pretty frictionless, uh, setup for our demonstration today. You can also come into the sandbox and customize your different settings. So, that's another thing that I would recommend. Um, as w…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“Cool. Awesome. So, just kicking us off here just to quickly run through a a bit of an agenda for today. As you may have seen on the on the workshop brief as well. First thing we'll cover off is just sort of like general enterprise security…”
Cursor for Finance Teams
“Can I ground this prompt with appropriate guardrails, rules, and skills? 100%. Um I have not been the biggest user of um skills. Uh I probably should be. Um but you can definitely do that. Um we've actually built a uh a couple of skills int…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“controls do we have the right data guardrails if people are going to soon rely on it. But I think that's honestly a question that is one that we're trying to learn how to solve and we're kind of flying the plane as we're like building it. I…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“for knowledge bases and things one way of this is like to tell the agent to be very verbose uh in cases where it needs to or to be more concise where where you feel it's appropriate. Uh it's a little bit particular for your use case. Um, fo…”