Cursor agent best practices

kept by eddie jan 12

Cursor's official guide details best practices for coding agents, emphasizing planning, context management, rules, and iterative review to maximize productivity.

Build agents that run automatically
Cursor Automations let developers create always-on agents triggered by events (Slack, Linear, GitHub, PagerDuty, webhooks) to automate code review, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
also on Bugbot, Slack, Cursor, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools
Anthropic integrates interactive MCP apps into Claude
Anthropic updated Claude to let users interact with Asana, Slack, Figma, and Box tools directly in chat using interactive MCP apps, enabling real-time collaboration on content.
also on Model Context Protocol, Figma, Slack, #productivity, #developer-tools
Claude Code Sees Like A Software Architect
Claude Code's native LSP support lets it understand code structurally like an IDE, eating the business model of startups that built semantic code understanding as middleware.
also on #ide, Cursor, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents
The piece outlines a four-step 'compound engineering' loop—plan, work, review, compound—to make each coding unit simplify future work, enabling small teams to run multiple products via AI agents.
also on #ide, Cursor, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
persistent.info: Sierra MCP Gateway Dev Diary
The diary chronicles Sierra engineers’ incremental construction of an MCP gateway, detailing weekly service additions, user adoption, and solutions for secure data access.
also on Model Context Protocol, Slack, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools