Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
Post History
When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include ...
#4: Nominated for promotion
by
Alexei
·
2025-04-09T15:46:07Z (18 days ago)
#3: Post edited
by
Franck Dernoncourt
·
2025-04-02T18:14:24Z (25 days ago)
- When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include previous messages, file contents, or other contextual data from the IDE?
- 
- Crossposts:
- - https://qr.ae/pApdIM
- - https://stackoverflow.com/q/79549328/395857
- https://forum.cursor.com/t/when-i-write-and-run-a-prompt-in-cursor-ide-whats-passed-in-the-context-to-the-model-gpt-claude-etc/73915?u=franck-dernoncourt
- When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include previous messages, file contents, or other contextual data from the IDE?
- 
- Crossposts:
- - https://qr.ae/pApdIM
- - https://stackoverflow.com/q/79549328/395857
- - https://forum.cursor.com/t/when-i-write-and-run-a-prompt-in-cursor-ide-whats-passed-in-the-context-to-the-model-gpt-claude-etc/73915?u=franck-dernoncourt
- - https://redd.it/1jpvl6x
- - https://redd.it/1jpvl4o
#2: Post edited
by
Franck Dernoncourt
·
2025-04-02T00:06:17Z (26 days ago)
- When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include previous messages, file contents, or other contextual data from the IDE?
- When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include previous messages, file contents, or other contextual data from the IDE?
- 
- Crossposts:
- - https://qr.ae/pApdIM
- - https://stackoverflow.com/q/79549328/395857
- - https://forum.cursor.com/t/when-i-write-and-run-a-prompt-in-cursor-ide-whats-passed-in-the-context-to-the-model-gpt-claude-etc/73915?u=franck-dernoncourt
#1: Initial revision
by
Franck Dernoncourt
·
2025-04-01T22:38:41Z (26 days ago)
When I write and run a prompt in Cursor IDE, what's passed in the context to the model (GPT/Claude/etc.)?
When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include previous messages, file contents, or other contextual data from the IDE? 