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schema

The declared shape of data — which fields exist, what types they hold, what is required.

dev 6 videos 13 mentions

Where it comes up

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 12:076 mentions

“Um, great. We're going to set up our dri drizzle configuration. We're going to make a database schema. This is something where we should probably make sure this looks correct. So, we need to have tables for user session account verification…”

Cursor for Knowledge Work

Apr 30, 2026first said at 8:112 mentions

“agent, and right now I provided very little information on the database schema, on the structure of our DB, and so it's probably going to think long and hard and use up a good amount of tokens. And so, once it actually learns the structure…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 30:382 mentions

“there's probably a shared layer where uh there's a contract between you know what schema is being used to kind of send the a uh receive APIs or like send a request to the external server and then consume it. Uh you can pretty much create a…”

Cursor Automations

Apr 2, 2026first said at 40:151 mention

“do and it'll probably do it really well, but it might miss some things and it might be a little too literal. It might not have your exact kind of schema in mind. So I mean for review, I would always say you need BugBot. BugBot catches thing…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 15:071 mention

“using sub aents to perform some of the work. And so actually what it's doing is it's leveraging this skill that tells it to scan different parts of the codebase for the current state. So things like uh analyzing the schema in my DB, scannin…”

Cursor for Support Teams

Nov 13, 2025first said at 36:181 mention

“Um so it's it's very it's very much oriented around Linear's sort of like schema and way the world works. But um we are using this internally. We're working on building this externally now including more connectors as well. Um for us yeah t…”