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Cursor

AI coding inside the Cursor editor.

3 plates · 9 min to read them all


  1. 08.01 How to Use Cursor: A 10-Minute First-Edit Tutorial Cursor in ten minutes: Tab completions, Cmd/Ctrl K inline edits, the Agent sidepane on Cmd/Ctrl I, and how to review or undo what Agent wrote. 3 min
  2. 08.02 Add an MCP Server to Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json) Configure a local or remote MCP server in Cursor, global or per project, keep the API key out of git, and verify it with a real tool call. 3 min
  3. 08.03 How to Write a Cursor Project Rule (.cursor/rules) Cursor project rules are .mdc files with frontmatter. Learn the four rule types, which frontmatter produces each, and copy a working example. 3 min

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  1. 01 Install & set up 5
  2. 02 First steps 4
  3. 03 Claude Code commands 9
  4. 04 Workflows 6
  5. 05 MCP 8
  6. 06 Claude 2
  7. 07 ChatGPT 6
  8. 09 Local LLMs 12
  9. 10 Prompting 8
  10. 11 Choosing tools 5
  11. 12 AI images 7
  12. 13 Everyday tasks 7
  13. 14 Other coding agents 5
  14. 15 Building with the API 18

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