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Answer the RFP with Cursor itself
Put this idea into your own words. "A long security questionnaire or RFP often arrives mid-deal and quietly eats a week of your timeline."
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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 quietly eats a week of your timeline. You can turn the product on it. 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 every one before you send. Ask mode is the safe surface for this because it reads and answers questions without changing 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 answers questions about the codebase you point it at, but it doesn't edit files or run commands, so it's a safe place to hand a security questionnaire or an architecture question. It is a convenience, not an access control: every user has both Ask and Agent, and there's no admin toggle that locks someone into Ask-only. The commit and merge review is the real gate, and you can simply not commit anything the agent writes.
The same trick prepares you for 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 works. You can then hold a technical conversation about their stack before the demo starts.