Cursor workshop FAQ: cost, format and results

A Cursor workshop is hands-on training in which your team applies Cursor to its own codebase, rather than to a demo project.

Cursor Workshop is delivered by Harness Institute. It is independent training and not an official Cursor programme.

• Brief Cursor Agent with a clear task and the right context.
• Maintain shared Cursor rules, committed to the repository.
• Apply MCP servers and subagents within defined limits.
• Review AI-written changes on evidence: tests, diffs and a short summary.
• Leave with an adoption plan for the next sprint.

The price of a workshop depends on the number of participants, the number of days and the format.

• Standard format: two days, ten to thirty participants.
• Minimum engagement: eight participants.
• Fewer than eight people? Join a cohort.
• The first month of Pulse is included.
• Travel and venue are quoted separately.

After a 30-minute call you receive a written proposal with the scope, the schedule and the price. You can also send a message with your team size and budget.

Yes. All exercises take place in your repositories and with your approved tools, under NDA where required. Code and data remain within your environment.

• Duration: two days as standard, one day for a narrower scope.
• Group size: ten to thirty participants, with a minimum of eight.
• Fewer than eight people? Join a cohort.
• Larger organisations are trained in multiple groups of up to thirty.

• Onsite: at your offices, within your own environment.
• Offsite: at an external venue, away from day-to-day work.
• Remote: live sessions via Zoom for distributed teams.

All formats are delivered by the same trainers with the same hands-on exercises.

No. Most organisations have licences and a few early adopters but no shared way of working. The programme establishes a common method across the team, regardless of starting level.

Yes. Mixed groups are recommended. Product and design participants learn to specify work that Cursor can execute and to assess the output; engineers learn to delegate and review.

Both contain instructions for Cursor. The difference is when Cursor loads them.

• .mdc files live in .cursor/rules and start with a short header: a description, file patterns (globs) and whether the rule always applies. Cursor uses that header to load the rule only when it fits.
• A plain .md file, such as AGENTS.md, has no header. Cursor reads it as general project instructions.

In the workshop, your team decides which rules belong where and keeps them concise enough to maintain.

Yes. Onsite delivery takes place at your offices, within your own environment. The same workshop is also available remotely or at an offsite venue.

Every workshop is delivered by the two founders of Harness Institute:

• Rogier Muller, CTO at BlueMonks Group, who runs coding agents in production daily.
• Vasilis Tsolis, partner at Cognitiv+, who advises regulated organisations on AI adoption.

Together they hold official ambassador roles for OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI (formerly Cursor), and n8n.

Yes. Both founders have a background in regulated sectors, including financial services, compliance and legal.

• Delivery takes place under NDA, within your environment and with tools you have already approved.
• Approval responsibilities are documented, so your audit trail remains intact.

Rules and checklists are committed to your repository, so the way of working is retained after delivery.

The first month of Pulse is included: a shared Slack or Teams channel with both founders, a briefing every two weeks and a two-hour live session each month. After that month you decide whether to continue.

Yes, through the live cohort: four live sessions with a maximum of ten participants, in two tiers: Simple and Applied. The cohort is delivered in Claude Code.

We recommend the tool your organisation already licenses. The method applies to every major tool. In addition to cursorworkshop.com, Harness Institute operates a dedicated workshop site per tool: claudeworkshop.com, codexworkshop.com, devinworkshop.com, gemini-workshop.com, githubworkshop.com.

Schedule a 30-minute introductory call. We discuss your team, codebase and objectives, and follow up with proposed dates and a written proposal.