prompt
The text you send the model. In an agent it is rarely just your message — it is your message plus rules, plus attached files, plus everything that happened earlier in the run.
Where it comes up
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“to dive into uh how we use cursor and how I specifically use cursor to build demos uh as a field engineer at cursor. So how I can build out scenarios and real kind of prompts based narratives uh so I can showcase uh certain workflows uh or…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“So, models are are non-deterministic. What this means is that you can submit the same prompt to the same model, let's say, five different times, and you will probably get a similar sort of end result from each of those prompts. But the way…”
Cursor Admin Guide
“So, in an enterprise context, a few things that um that Cursor has put in place, there's going to be privacy mode on by default and it can't be turned off. We have zero data retention agreements in place with all of the major model and so,…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“That's actually what this session is for is we really want to empower you all to understand best practices because these best practices are going to translate into token efficiency and cost efficiency but most importantly it's going to give…”
Cursor CLI
“you're building it so. Um, let's start here in the top and just get, again, kind of a 101 level of familiarity with our CLI. So, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to open with a slash command, uh, and this is going to prompt me w…”
Cursor for Enterprise
“context to each user's interaction with an agent. So for example, there's obviously a couple of different scopes that you can do this. You can do this at a project level or a user level. From an enterprise perspective, we we might see this…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“and I can say uh let's migrate this codebase to Rust. Now you can think about plan mode like a prompt optimizer. You don't have to specify everything up front. You're going on this journey to work with the model to figure out what you want…”
Cursor 101
“So, now rather than just throwing the prompt at the agent and hoping for the best, I'm going to use something called plan mode. And this essentially tells the agent, don't write code yet. Uh research the code base first and then give me a p…”
Cursor 201
“ASP.NET, it's an e-commerce platform. Cool. Um and then it's giving me this kind of like top-level diagram. So, it's using diagrams where it it thinks that they're appropriate. And so, this is another piece that we talk about in the 101. Li…”
Cursor 201
“we're going to just take a look at a skill that I've written here. All right, so skills are repeatable workflows that you can configure and allow your agent to follow that workflow. So if you find yourself kind of writing the same prompt an…”
Cursor Automations
“And it's very hard to keep track. And this automation helps a lot. So every day at 10:00 10:00 10:00 at 10:00 a.m. PST, it goes ahead and create a daily engineering digest. It already has a pre-written prompt for me and it uses a tool of se…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“context. Um, now we're in the demos bit. So, first thing, this is just like where I start. Uh, I just I'll I'll pause here so you can see the prompt. So, this is like my level of prompting. So, I gave it literally the pointer to the GitHub…”
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“or control E to jump to this new view. Now in this new view, it's much more agent first, agent centric where I can start with prompts and control the agent and run agents in parallel, run multiple agents, and a bunch more. We're going to ge…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“where you can spin up a bunch of agents in parallel, um and prompt them all in parallel as well. And then we're focusing more and more on design elements and UI elements, so you can imagine you can directly interact with websites. We recent…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“in two ways. I could just hit slash test coverage and uh pass a parameter to it or I could just tell the agent, hey, can you check my backend test coverage? Either situation. In the first situation, I'm explicitly triggering it triggering i…”
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 Mobile Developers
“So, like I mentioned, agents window, you know, is an agentic first experience and we're going to be using this to uh you know, bridge the gap between cursor and and different IDEs. So, I'm just going to walk through kind of the layout of of…”
PRD to PR
“what's actually happening with Cursor. Because, you know, there's a lot of people that think um you know, Cursor's just this kind of, you know, client desktop app and we just, you know, send your prompts directly to the model providers um a…”
Cursor Agent SDK
“Uh what's going to happen or or what is the interface going to look like when you actually start to submit prompts uh and and actually run the SDK. And then how are you going to work with those messages and and streams that are emitted? Why…”
Cursor for Designers
“Sorry, I lost the Q&A. There we go. Um, best practices for cursor prompts. Um, I'll try and keep it simple here. The more specific you are, the more context you give, the better. So if you give cursor images, files, uh you know, example pie…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“Uh, and you'll see I had a couple of typos in that prompt, but cursor is very good at understanding what you mean, so you don't have to worry about always typing things 100% perfectly. Okay. So, as it as it's running, um I can actually tell…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“development, you're going to be very involved with the agent. You're going to be seeing responses very quickly and providing feedback, eventually building plans in a very synchronous manner with the agent. With asynchronous agents, you're g…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“So I would think of these as life cycle in inceptors basically um where they will kind of let you inject custom logic either before or after the agent takes an action. So if you see the uh JSON config on the right hand side uh in this examp…”
Cursor 101
“resume the same task. And look, um you know, simple prompt, and we've got like a new sidebar here. Um another feature I'd love to highlight, I'm not sure if we touched on design mode earlier, we probably did, but we can quickly make changes…”
Cursor for Data Science
“Um I'm actually going to ask cursor, feel free to use the ask clarification tool to get more data from me. And what the ask clarification tool is, um, we'll see it shortly, um, is a way for cursor to actually maybe get more direction from t…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“Cool. These are really great questions. Um please keep them coming if you have any any more. This we definitely want this to be as interactive as possible. Um, but I'll keep going and I'll talk about um really quickly what happens when some…”
Cursor x Slack
“which is reducing the time it takes for our PMs to actually step in and prompt for more questions. The agent can kind of handle that itself. Um and then there's this other agent, which is a little more exponential, which is you know, who's…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“the second era, which was focused on like synchronous agents. So, having an agent riding shotgun with you while you're writing code. Um and I think what's really interesting about this is this agent this era probably didn't even last like a…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“type it there's there's so many things like it's very daunting to start what's very good is you can actually go to the chat and hit create create rule create sub agent create skill there's already a builtin um template within cursor that he…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“etc. This plan is of course editable. I can change it however I want. I can edit it. These 2DS can be edited. I can even ask it to write the test for me or even rewrite the play entirely to follow a different direction if there's a fundamen…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“And so I gave it my prompt telling it what I wanted it to do. Um and we see it after spinning up, um it worked for a few minutes generating the plan, and then it gives us an overview of what that plan was. Up here on the right, I can click…”
Training Composer 2
“summary prompt that says, "Given what you've done so far, if you want to keep on going, how how you summarize what's happened?" And then that literally just gets plopped back into the model itself. Um so it's really neat that you can do thi…”