When you paste a URL in Chat, Cursor automatically tags it as an @Link and fetches the content to use as context. This includes support for PDF documents - Cursor extracts and parses text content from any publicly accessible PDF URL.

To use a URL as plain text without fetching its content:

  • Click the tagged link and select Unlink
  • Or paste while holding Shift to prevent automatic tagging

When you paste a URL in Chat, Cursor automatically tags it as an @Link and fetches the content to use as context. This includes support for PDF documents - Cursor extracts and parses text content from any publicly accessible PDF URL.

To use a URL as plain text without fetching its content:

  • Click the tagged link and select Unlink
  • Or paste while holding Shift to prevent automatic tagging