Cursor AI

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built on VS Code, featuring multi-file code editing via Cursor Composer, predictive codebase indexing, and contextual code generation.

When to Use

• AI-Native Software Engineering: Supercharging development with Cursor IDE, Composer, and multi-file code generation.
• Context-Aware Codebase Exploration: Indexing entire repositories to ask architectural questions using @codebase.
• Automated Rule Enforcement: Defining project conventions, tech stack guidelines, and testing rules with .cursorrules.
• Terminal & In-Editor Debugging: Resolving compiler errors, stack traces, and linter warnings with inline AI prompts.

Quick Start

Create .cursorrules in your project root to provide persistent agent instructions:

# .cursorrules