GitHub 29K Stars: Underlying Prompts of Popular AI Tools Like Cursor and Manus Exposed
Cursor AI & tools exposed: GitHub reveals secret prompts behind coding assistants. How prompt engineering powers AI dev tools.
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AI programming tools led by Cursor have become very proficient for many users.
I wonder if you feel any sense of crisis. With AI writing code, one person can do the work of three, especially for coding novices who can create simple applications with almost zero experience.
What you might not have expected is that behind these AI tools, it’s still prompt engineering. By optimizing prompts to the extreme and perfecting the user experience, you get Cursor.
Cursor = Prompts + Engineering Optimization.
Engineering optimization means perfecting all the functional operations in VS Code to make it extremely user-friendly.
Recently, an open-source project revealed the system prompts of multiple AI tools, including Cursor, Manus, Same.dev, Lovable, Devin, Replit Agent, Windsurf Agent, and VSCode Agent.