Cursor · Software & DevOps
19 workflows that use Cursor for software & devops work. An AI-first code editor with an agent mode.
A Cursor Projects coordinator agent delegates to sub-agents, watches new PRs and production bugs, spins up agents to fix issues, and surfaces questions to the user.
Original post ↗A user built a frontend-only invitation site with animations, images and navigation for his girlfriend, giving instructions to Cursor without touching the code.
Original post ↗Ran a Cursor agent continuously for 24 hours to build a project management tool; the app fully works but is not production ready.
Original post ↗A developer authorized the GitHub app so Cursor background agents cloned repos into sandboxes, branched, and worked through a day's queue of maintenance, features and bug fixes.
Original post ↗A bot scans a Cursor employee's X bookmarks daily, picks a new technology, drafts a prompt, and on approval starts a Cursor Cloud agent to build a prototype in about 15 minutes.
Original post ↗A commenter runs a persistent script that watches tasks and uses Cursor to open pull requests, building a documentation summarizer and a data pipeline.
Original post ↗Cursor's write-up on scaling long-running autonomous coding.
Original post ↗Cursor agents create Terraform, k8s manifests and CI, validate them and open a draft PR; one cleanup run wrongly deleted Terraform files.
Original post ↗Agents publish planned changes before editing so conflicting architecture changes across parallel worktrees get flagged before code is written.
Original post ↗The author had Cursor run Terraform against Postgres via MCP; the apply hit a permissions error and he finished from the terminal.
Original post ↗Kent C. Dodds had Cursor's agent look up migration docs, plan and upgrade Remix v2 to React Router v7 and xstate in his site.
Original post ↗Cursor's background agent built a pricing landing page from a short spec in about 5 minutes on a new branch and opened a PR.
Original post ↗A developer used Cursor and Warp agents to analyze NestJS database queries and recommend indexes for a production performance problem.
Original post ↗A solo founder used Claude, ChatGPT, Windsurf and Cursor as role-based team members to design, test and deploy a 120-model mental-models framework and MCP server.
Original post ↗A DevOps engineer uses Cursor with a Kubernetes MCP to pull prod logs and suggest fixes, and to repair a broken docker-compose file.
Original post ↗The author connected Figma to Cursor over MCP to build a new homepage for a font archive, with great results after Lovable disappointed.
Original post ↗A founder used Cursor agents to find prototype gaps, draw ASCII wireframes, and plan and implement a feature with parallel agents in worktrees.
Original post ↗Answer.AI tried Devin on an observability integration, an nbdev migration and a vulnerability review; it found some real issues, hallucinated others, and failed the migration.
Original post ↗Brex built Cursor-based self-correcting agents that let one engineer migrate 180 microservices to a newer Micronaut version in about a month.
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