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Support A guide to all available tools in Cursor’s Chat modes for searching, editing, and interacting
with your codebase
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Welcome to Cursor The following is a list of all the tools available to the modes within the Chat.
Installation While these are fixes for Cursor’s default modes, you can enable or disable any of these tools when
FAQ building your own custom modes.
Editor Agents can perform up to 25 tool calls per session. If this limit is reached, you can press “Continue”
to allow additional tool calls (each “Continue” counts as one request).
Tab
Overview
Tab vs GitHub Copilot Search
Auto-import These tools are used to search your codebase and the web to find relevant information.
Advanced Features
Chat Read File
Overview Read the contents of a file within your codebase.
Agent Mode — Up to 750 lines in max mode
— Up to 250 lines in other modes
Ask mode
Manual Mode
List Directory
Custom Modes Read the structure of a directory without reading the contents of the files.
Tools
Apply
Codebase
Inline Edit (⌘K) Perform semantic searches within your indexed codebase.
Models & Pricing
Keyboard Shortcuts
Grep
Features Search for exact keywords or patterns within files.
Context
Search Files
Codebase Indexing Quickly find files by name using fuzzy matching.
Rules
Managing Context
Web
@ Symbols Generate search queries and perform web searches.
Ignore Files
Model Context Protocol
Fetch Rules
Max Mode Retrieve specific rules based on rule type and description.
Account
Plans & Usage Edit
Business Ask AI
These tools are used to make specific edits to your files and codebase.
Dashboard
Edit & Reapply
Suggest edits to files and applies them automatically.
Website Delete File
Delete files autonomously (can be disabled in settings).
Forum
Support
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Run
Welcome to Cursor The Chat has the ability to interact with your terminal.
Installation
Terminal
FAQ Cursor can execute terminal commands, and montitor the output.
Editor
By default, Cursor will use the first terminal profile available within Cursor that it can use.
Tab
Overview To set your preferred terminal profile:
Tab vs GitHub Copilot
Auto-import
1. Open Command Palette ( Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P )
Advanced Features
2. Search for “Terminal: Select Default Profile”
Chat
3. Choose your desired profile
Overview
Agent Mode MCP Servers
Ask mode Chat can make use of configured MCP servers to be able to interact with external services, such as
Manual Mode databases or 3rd party APIs.
Custom Modes
Tools Toggle MCP Servers
Toggle all available MCP servers. This will respect auto-run option.
Apply
Inline Edit (⌘K)
Models & Pricing Learn more about MCP Servers.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Features Advanced Options
Auto-apply Edits
Context
Automatically apply edits without manual confirmation.
Codebase Indexing
Rules
Auto-run
Managing Context
@ Symbols
Automatically execute terminal commands and accept edits. Useful for running test suites and
verifying changes.
Ignore Files
Model Context Protocol
Max Mode
Guardrails
Define guardrails and allow/deny lists for specific tools to control automatic execution. Configure
Account
these settings as needed.
Plans & Usage
Business
Dashboard
Website
Forum
Support
Get Started
Welcome to Cursor
Installation
FAQ
Editor
Tab
Overview
Tab vs GitHub Copilot Auto-fix Errors
Auto-import Automatically resolve linter errors and warnings.
Advanced Features
Chat
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