Software & DevOps
Scaffold a new service end to end with agents
Cursor agents create Terraform, k8s manifests and CI, validate them and open a draft PR; one cleanup run wrongly deleted Terraform files.
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Cursor
An AI-first code editor with an agent mode.
Cursor is a VS Code–based editor with inline completions, chat over your codebase and an agent that can plan and apply edits across many files.
- Type
- Coding agent
- Pricing
- Free tier, Pro from $20/mo
- Use cases
- 39
Use cases with Cursor
Software & DevOps
Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents
Agents publish planned changes before editing so conflicting architecture changes across parallel worktrees get flagged before code is written.
Claude Code · Codex · Cursor
Work & Operations
Run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard
A Rippling engineer's Cursor cron agent runs every two hours, reading Slack notes, GitHub PRs, Jira issues and mentions, deduplicating them and posting a dashboard.
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Research & Knowledge
Grade Cursor on a real data science project
A data scientist tested Cursor on a real project: weak on pandas, data cleansing and scraping, strong at prototyping.
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Software & DevOps
Run Terraform plan and apply through an MCP agent
The author had Cursor run Terraform against Postgres via MCP; the apply hit a permissions error and he finished from the terminal.
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Research & Knowledge
Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles
Cursor Agent writes and maintains interlinked markdown pages from user-supplied sources, summarizing and cross-referencing, with Obsidian used to browse.
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Content & Creative
Draft articles quoting Kindle highlights and notes
The author saves Kindle highlights and event notes in Obsidian and has Cursor reference them to quote past reading when drafting articles.
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Games & Simulations
Vibe-code a Flappy Bird game for DeskHog
A PostHog tutorial has Cursor in Agent mode write a Flappy Bird-style game for the DeskHog device from its README and hardware details.
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Software & DevOps
Upgrade site dependencies and frameworks with Cursor
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.
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Software & DevOps
Ship a backlog landing page from a ticket spec
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.
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Software & DevOps
Build a mental models framework with a multi-agent dev team
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.
Claude · ChatGPT · Cursor
Software & DevOps
Troubleshoot a production-only performance issue
A developer used Cursor and Warp agents to analyze NestJS database queries and recommend indexes for a production performance problem.
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Work & Operations
Surface unanswered emails from the past week
Author had Devin build a Gmail API assistant that lists unanswered emails from the past week, since Attio lacks that tab; he wrote the auth part himself in Cursor.
Devin · Cursor
Software & DevOps
Debug prod pods and docker-compose with Cursor
A DevOps engineer uses Cursor with a Kubernetes MCP to pull prod logs and suggest fixes, and to repair a broken docker-compose file.
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Sales, Marketing & Support
Investigate customer errors and draft tickets in support
Cursor's support team uses Cursor with MCP to pull Datadog logs, search past cases, and draft a Linear bug ticket and customer reply.
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Software & DevOps
Build a homepage from Figma designs via MCP
The author connected Figma to Cursor over MCP to build a new homepage for a font archive, with great results after Lovable disappointed.
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Sales, Marketing & Support
Draft personalized outbound, recaps and forecasts for sales
Cursor's internal ChatGTM drafts signal-based outbound messages with personalized landing pages, call recap emails and follow-ups, and assembles the deal forecast.
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Research & Knowledge
Let Cursor maintain an Obsidian notes vault
Cursor reviews vault structure, suggests connections, answers questions about notes and writes a daily done note documenting other agent sessions.
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