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Answer the RFP with Cursor itself
Connect "So it's safe to hand a security questionnaire or an architecture question to" to the decision you would make.
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Answer the RFP with Cursor itselfAsk mode for security questions
A long security questionnaire or RFP often arrives mid-deal and it's the thing that quietly eats a week of your timeline. You can turn it on the product. Point Cursor at your own connected codebase or docs in Ask modeA read-only mode for asking questions about a codebase without changing files; the safe way to explore unfamiliar or legacy code. Press Enter for the full definition. and have it draft the answers, then you verify and send. Ask mode is the safe surface for this: it can read and reason, but it can't change anything.
Ask modeA read-only mode for asking questions about a codebase without changing files; the safe way to explore unfamiliar or legacy code. Press Enter for the full definition. reads and reasons against the codebase you point it at, but it can't write, generate or run anything - so it's safe to hand a security questionnaire or an architecture question to. Every user has both Ask and Agent; there's no admin toggle that locks someone into Ask-only, so the discipline is yours. The normal commit/merge gate still applies, and you can simply not commit anything the agent writes.
The same trick onboards you onto a stack you don't know. Before a bespoke demo into an unfamiliar architecture - or a legacy shop running something like COBOL - ask Cursor to walk you through how that codebase or pattern actually works so you can speak to it with a straight face in front of any audience, in any industry.