Real, published system prompts from shipping AI products — each with source attribution and notes on what makes it work.
An earlier, leaner Cursor agent prompt (Claude Sonnet 4) focused on tool-calling rules, aggressive parallel tool execution, search-and-reading bias to…
A refined Cursor in-editor agent prompt (GPT-5) with tightly structured spec blocks: status_update, summary, completion, flow, tool_calling, parallel …
The Cursor agent system prompt for an autonomous pair-programming coding agent embedded in the editor. It defines XML-tagged behavior blocks (communic…
System prompt for Cursor's CLI agent (GPT-5) that pair-programs to autonomously resolve coding tasks. It specifies detailed communication specs (statu…
An earlier, lighter Cursor chat-mode system prompt for a GPT-4o pair-programmer that biases toward answering questions rather than editing. It specifi…
A composite Cursor agent prompt combining a full TypeScript-namespace tool schema (codebase_search, run_terminal_cmd, grep, edit_file, read_file, upda…
A JSON array of function/tool definitions for the Cursor agent, each with a description and JSON-Schema parameters. Defines codebase_search (semantic)…