.md
A Markdown file — plain text with a light sprinkle of formatting. It became the format agents are configured in because it is readable by both people and models: rules, plans, and AGENTS.md are all just .md.
Where it comes up
Cursor 201
“So under the hood, skills are just markdown files. We can see here that the agent will intelligently pull into context when it decides to that it needs to use that skill. Um, so we can create skills in a couple different ways. Um, first we…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“and so this rules folder has a set of different uh MD files. These are effectively just markdown files, but MDC is cursor's way of distinguishing a normal markdown file and making it a rule file. And really all it does is add this front mat…”
Cursor 101
“So, we're still creating this plan. When it does output the plan, the plan is going to be a simple markdown file. So, if you want to make more changes to the plan, not only do you have the ability to converse with the AI directly, but you c…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“getting uh closer to the end of our time of our demo. So I'll just kick it off uh close out with one kind of final thing. I'm actually going to switch back into agent mode um to show you how you can use all of this to create some artifacts.…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“So I'll have one that's kind of behind the curtain. It'll have a a demo narrative. It'll have the prompts that I want to run. Uh, and then I'll actually share my screen showing a kind of cleaned up version of this repository without the mar…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“I'm going to pop over here into a brand new cursor workspace. Um, and I'm going to click on settings here, uh, with this cog button in the upper right hand corner. And I'm going to go to the rules, skills, and sub aents tab where we're goin…”
Cursor for Designers
“Cool. Um, cursor does support design.md files. What I would say though is make sure that they are incorporated into a skill somehow. So if you have a skill around design, skills can access scripts or other MD files. So just make sure that's…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“So, where this all started was a tweet that I had and the tweet was uh I migrated cursor from a CMS to raw code and markdown. I thought it would take a few weeks but actually was able to get it done pretty quickly and I wrote up this blog p…”
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“changes here which is now you can actually edit this directly like I already have this or you can ask it in the chat and I went ahead of time and provisioned a database so that we wouldn't have to do that live. So I'm just going to save tho…”
Cursor for Data Science
“Um, to answer the question, rules do take up context window as you see here. Um, but the shorter your rule is, and the more concise it is, the better. Um, as you can see, the sub agent is like about 150 lines, maybe a little less. You want…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“possible for notion. It's also possible for other uh knowledge management systems that you may have. Things like the elastin MCP are also supported which helps you bring documentation from Jura and from places like Confluence as well. And s…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“so the answer there is not it's not stored as like what you would think of as like a typical code repository. It's more stored in an external source and then brought in by via MCP. I do think that question is interesting because it does tap…”
Cursor x Datadog
“leadership. Um canvas, as uh I kind of briefly mentioned, is a new feature in Cursor that acts as a form of enriched UI. So, instead of, you know, doing markdown files all the time, you can use canvases for anything. Um some examples that w…”
Cursor x Slack
“reported uh paper cuts in Slack?" And um if we could build a consistent pattern for how we want to report this, would this meaningfully improve agent output? And so, we built a skill, and then from that skill sort of markdown file, uh we ba…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“So give it a second to just come up with this plan. I'm curious if anyone's actually using plan mode. Um I think that'd be interesting uh to to hear about as well. But we'll just give it a second to populate. >> [snorts] >> Cool. So it's bu…”
Cursor 101
“When would I use it as opposed to picking the model manually? And, I think the answer off the top of my head is that we kind of always recommend um using auto, and then you can use something like a opus 4.6 or like GBT 5.4 if you actually w…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“in the next month or so as well. Awesome I just want to jump back into the Q&A I guess Noah anything jumping out at you that we want to cover off? Yeah this might be a little bit of a deviation but there's a question in here that says I hea…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“being called. So let's actually go back into our IDE and open up one of our rules file. So you can see that I have a Java import MDC. MDC is markdown. C stands for cursor. It's essentially saying that always apply is actually false. You don…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“implement it. And so, let's say I was working on a PowerPoint generation tool. And I might have a plan and I'll talk to Agent, what is the best way to do this? And it'll actually look through the codebase, it will research docs, and create…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“So when the agent first boots up, right? It's going to have a reference to every name and description of all the skills you have. And as it's working, it can choose, you know, an appropriate time to pull in that skill and use that skill. An…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“those go through and create artifacts that you can then review in your browser or in your IDE, and then pairing that with tools like automations and bug bot so that you can have some verifiability and observability into the quality of the c…”
PRD to PR
“skill, and you can kind of go through and see like what this what this skill actually does. Again, you don't actually have to create the skill yourself. You know, I don't think anyone really likes writing markdown files by hand. So, we actu…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“You could do this in kind of cursor, right, with creating a markdown file and having it keep up a progress uh keeping progress notes as well. Um but for working with broader teams, I find that being able to track this work and assign differ…”