cursor
Reference system prompt and tool schemas for Cursor. Use when imitating, comparing, or analyzing Cursor's prompting style; designing prompts inspired by Cursor; or answering questions about how Cursor
SKILL.mdskills/cursor/SKILL.md
GitHubCursor
Cursor IDE agent and chat system prompts (multiple versions and the CLI).
When activated, read the bundled source files below to ground your response in the actual published prompt text. Do not paraphrase from memory — the canonical content lives in these files.
Source files
sources/Agent CLI Prompt 2025-08-07.txt(14,067 bytes)sources/Agent Prompt 2.0.txt(38,844 bytes)sources/Agent Prompt 2025-09-03.txt(19,028 bytes)sources/Agent Prompt v1.0.txt(9,023 bytes)sources/Agent Prompt v1.2.txt(32,197 bytes)sources/Agent Tools v1.0.json(23,545 bytes)sources/Chat Prompt.txt(12,569 bytes)
Usage
- Quote or summarise from the files above when answering "how does Cursor prompt its agent?" style questions.
- When emulating Cursor's style, mirror its structure (sections, tool-use rules, refusal patterns) rather than copying verbatim.
- These prompts were collected by the upstream
x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-toolsrepo and may drift from the live product over time.