Context Engineering in Cursor
How the 1% use @files and codebase context to get perfect output.
Lesson Notes
Context is everything in AI coding. Cursor lets you use @filename, @folder, @docs, and @web to inject specific context into any prompt. The more relevant context you give, the less the AI hallucinates. Pro tip: instead of asking "fix my auth", say "looking at @auth.ts and @middleware.ts, why is the session not persisting after login?"
Quick Check
0/4 answered · 60% to passQ1.In Cursor, the @ symbol in chat lets you:
Q2.Why is providing context so important in AI coding?
Q3.Which prompt makes better use of context?
Q4.@docs in Cursor is used to:
Your Challenge
+20 XPIn a Cursor chat, use the @ symbol to pull in 2-3 specific files as context. Ask it to explain how those files interact with each other. Then ask it to make a change that spans all of them.