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slash command

A saved prompt you invoke by name with a leading slash, so a workflow you repeat becomes one keystroke instead of a paragraph you retype.

cursor 7 videos 17 mentions

Where it comes up

Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills

Mar 5, 2026first said at 15:446 mentions

“We've got our rules here. And um what's really cool about skills is that you can uh create them here from the rules, skills, and sub agents uh panel. But you can also use the forward slash and choose create skill and essentially just write…”

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 5:415 mentions

“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 Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 29:122 mentions

“sub agents or all the other slash commands that you want. Um, next thing that I'd like to showcase you guys is you get to choose different models. So on my left hand side, I actually want to use composer 1.5 in the same in the same director…”

Cursor 101

May 7, 2026first said at 39:241 mention

“included here in context. Thank you. Of course. So, uh we were able to see that the canvas report was generated. And here is what that looks like. So, again, a little bit nicer than a traditional mermaid diagram or just like a markdown file…”

Cursor 201

May 19, 2026first said at 10:521 mention

“make sure everything was running before we got here. All I had to do was just do this this slash command the skill for start local nopcommerce commerce and we're good to go and I'm I'm up and running um you know, with my with my server over…”

Cursor for Enterprise

Apr 16, 2026first said at 22:001 mention

“great great call out there is definitely you know across skills and rules yeah you can they can definitely sort of be confusing concepts in terms of which to use when. I guess like the main distinction across a skill and a rule is that a sc…”

PRD to PR

Mar 18, 2026first said at 25:031 mention

“whatever, as an example. There's also a lot of like security things. Commands are are usually for workflows, so you invoke those by hitting the slash command. So, you can say like, when I do slash PR or whatever, it'll open a PR in in whate…”