Cursor Chat Prompt Library

QuickPick templates for Cursor AI chat — pick a prompt and insert into chat (Composer & Agent).

1300 templates — 53 categories (Python × 50, JavaScript / TypeScript / React / Next.js / Tailwind / Node.js / NestJS × 50, others × 20):

Tier	Categories
Core	Website, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, SQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy
High demand	Next.js, FastAPI, Celery, Docker, Testing, Tailwind CSS
Strong demand	Node.js, NestJS, Vue, PHP, Laravel, C#/.NET, Java/Spring, Linux/Bash, CI/CD, REST/OpenAPI, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mobile, Kotlin, Android (Java), Android (Kotlin), Swift
Growing / niche	C, C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, Observability, AWS/Cloud, WordPress, Data/Pandas, Security, GraphQL
Cross-cutting	Regex, Prompt Engineering, Programming Languages, Machine Learning

Part of the plugins monorepo.

Hotkey (primary)

Key	Action
Ctrl+Alt+T (Windows/Linux)	Step 1: category (53 types) → Step 2: prompt → insert into chat
Cmd+Alt+T (macOS)	Same

Press Ctrl, Alt, and T together (T = Template).

Hotkey (alternative)

Key	Action
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P (Windows/Linux)	Same two-step QuickPick
Cmd+Alt+Shift+P (macOS)	Same

Commands

Command	Action
Pick Prompt (Category, then Template)	Same as hotkey (two steps)
Insert Prompt into Chat (All Categories)	Single list, all 1300 prompts
Insert Website / Python / JavaScript Prompt	One category only (legacy shortcuts)

Via Command Palette

F1 or Ctrl+Shift+P → Pick Prompt (or filter Cursor Chat Prompt Library).
Use when you do not remember the hotkey or it conflicts with another extension.

Requirements

Cursor recommended (workbench.action.chat.open and Composer commands).
Plain VS Code: prompts copy to clipboard if chat cannot open.

Install (development)

cd plugins\vscode\cursor-chat-prompt-library
build.bat
cursor --install-extension build\cursor-chat-prompt-library-0.8.9.vsix

Reload the window. Primary: Ctrl+Alt+T; alternative: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P (see Via Command Palette for F1).

Maintaining prompts

Bundled data: prompts/*.json (one file per category).
Regenerate extended categories (batch 1): node scripts/generate-extra-categories.mjs
Append batch 2 (+10 per file): node scripts/append-batch-2.mjs (uses scripts/batch-2-prompts.mjs)
Append batch 3 (+30 for JS stack): node scripts/append-batch-3-js-stack.mjs (uses scripts/batch-3-js-stack-prompts.mjs)
Append batch 3 NestJS (+30): node scripts/append-batch-3-nestjs.mjs (uses scripts/batch-3-nestjs-prompts.mjs)
Batch 8 (8 new categories): node scripts/generate-batch-8-categories.mjs (uses scripts/batch-8-categories-en.mjs)
Display order: CATEGORY_FILE_ORDER in src/promptStore.js.

License

MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute, at your own risk.
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Author

Rufat

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