Cursor Agent Best Practices
This comprehensive guide delves into best practices for working with coding agents, covering topics such as planning, context management, customizing workflows, and reviewing code. It emphasizes the importance of planning before coding, managing context effectively, and leveraging agent skills for dynamic capabilities. The guide also provides insights into how to start new conversations, reference past work, and customize agent behavior using rules and skills.
Coding agents are changing how software gets built.
Models can now run for hours, complete ambitious multi-file refactors, and iterate until tests pass. But getting the most out of agents requires understanding how they work and developing new patterns.
This guide covers techniques for working with Cursor's agent.