Cursor guides: subagents, rules, and MCP

Practical Cursor guides for subagents, rules, MCP setup, code review, and team use in production repositories.

Start with Cursor subagents, MCP training, and team conventions.

Have you tried these? Run the change on one branch. The methodology puts that in Review: an engineer still owns the merge. Training is the team version of that step.

Railroad Cut (La Tranchée), landscape painting by Paul Cézanne (1867).

Open Source·Document·6 min read

KyttoMCP Manages MCP Server Configs

KyttoMCP centralizes MCP server configs across coding clients, with profiles, checks, and safer setup boundaries.

September 12, 2026·Rogier Muller

Sheepfold at daybreak, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1861).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·6 min read

Remoot Runs Cursor Agent From Your Phone

Remoot lets developers start Cursor Agent from a phone; this explains the fit, risks, and a safe first test.

September 10, 2026·Rogier Muller

New England Scenery, Frederic Edwin Church, 1851 - Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA - DSC03984, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1851).

Open Source·Document·7 min read

i-have-adhd Makes Agents Answer First

i-have-adhd shows how an answer-first skill can make coding-agent replies easier to scan, test, and review.

September 9, 2026·Rogier Muller

Maximilien Luce Jeunes femmes sur le quai, Honfleur 1928, landscape painting by Maximilien Luce (1928).

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

A Cursor Workshop on Agent PRs

A Hacker News thread surfaced Lauren Tan’s Cursor workshop on agent-written PRs and the systems behind them.

September 7, 2026·Rogier Muller

View of Rome from Tivoli, landscape painting by George Inness (1872).

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Self-Hosted Machines Run Agents Locally

Cursor self-hosted machines keep agent tool execution on your own infrastructure while preserving IDE review control.

September 6, 2026·Rogier Muller

La Clairière, landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1865).

Open Source·Document·7 min read

Rubato_Device Turns AI Waits Into Breaks

Rubato Device turns AI agent wait time into desk-level break prompts; here is what it does and when to try it.

September 5, 2026·Rogier Muller

Crossing the Bridge, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1838).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·3 min read

17K Runs of Claude, Codex, and Cursor

Armature measured nearly 17k Claude, Codex, and Cursor runs to see which tools agents choose and what Cursor users can learn.

September 4, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape by Theodore Rousseau, undated, oil on panel - Huntington Museum of Art - DSC05316, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.

Open Source·Document·7 min read

Shed Manages Git for Terminal Agents

Shed gives terminal coding agents clean git workspaces. Learn what it does, why it landed, and when to try it.

September 2, 2026·Rogier Muller

Troupeau de moutons au bord de la rivière, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny.

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Starts Cloud Agents Without Repos

Cursor now lets Cloud Agents begin without GitHub or another SCM, then save the result to Cursor Origin.

September 1, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape with a Stream, landscape painting by George Inness (1885).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·6 min read

AgentCloud Gives Cloud Agents iOS Simulators

AgentCloud connects MCP-compatible coding agents to disposable iOS simulators so app fixes can be tested end to end.

August 29, 2026·Rogier Muller

Towboat leaving the port of Ostend at high tide, landscape painting by Andreas Achenbach (1878).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·7 min read

TaskShell Bridges AI Coding Agents

TaskShell is a Show HN project that lets AI coding agents share task state, with a safe Cursor workflow to test it.

August 27, 2026·Rogier Muller

Cows Crossing a Ford, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1836).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Create a Cursor Plugin You Can Install

Rajkumar Samra’s post shows how Cursor plugins package context, rules, skills, agents, hooks, and MCP.

August 25, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape with Farmyard by Henry Ward Ranger, landscape painting by Henry Ward Ranger.

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Cursor Origin Hosts Code Repos

Cursor Origin now hosts repos and pull requests in early beta, with GitHub sync and a one-repo checklist to test safely.

August 23, 2026·Rogier Muller

The Hunter's Return, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1845).

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Cloud Agents Get Longer Leashes

Cursor’s August 2026 changelog gives cloud agents subscriptions, /goal, custom modes, and safer subagent VMs to test in one repo.

August 21, 2026·Rogier Muller

La Maison au toit rouge, par Georges Seurat, landscape painting by Georges Seurat (1883).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor Cloud Agents Start Faster With Builds

Cursor Builds prepare Cloud Agent environments ahead of time. Separate disk setup from running services, check source freshness and test a small task.

August 16, 2026·Rogier Muller

Color coordination, landscape painting by André Derain.

Open Source·Document·7 min read

agentic-ship Runs Lovable-Style Builds on Your Agent

agentic-ship packages app-builder conventions as an open-source harness your existing coding agent can run.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller

Blagoveschensky Cathedral and Province Gymnasia NNovgorod, landscape painting by Ivan Shishkin (1870).

Methodology·Document·3 min read

How .cursor/rules works, past the Cursor rules documentation

The Cursor rules documentation explains the .cursor/rules file format. This explains which of the four attachment modes to pick and why it matters.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape near Crémieu, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1849).

Methodology·Document·3 min read

Cursor skills your team should build first

The Cursor skills that separate fast teams from frustrated ones, and how to turn a working prompt into a rule the whole repo uses.

August 15, 2026·Rogier Muller

Parti af den nordre Kastelsbro The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen, landscape painting by Christen Købke (1837).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Vibsync Shares Memory Across Cursor, Claude, Codex

Vibsync gives Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex one MCP memory; this shows where it helps and where to set boundaries.

August 9, 2026·Rogier Muller

Brug naar L'Isle-Adam Bridge to L'Isle-Adam, landscape painting by Jules Dupré (1871).

Cursor Features·Document·9 min read

Cursor Adds Google Workspace Plugins

Cursor’s Google Workspace Plugins connect agents to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets from the editor.

August 4, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape from the Rhine, landscape painting by Carl Friedrich Lessing (1859).

Open Source·Document·7 min read

skill-language-server Refactors Agent Skills

skill-language-server adds LSP tooling for agent skills, so Cursor users can review renames and references safely.

August 1, 2026·Rogier Muller

Sketch for 'Aqueduct near Rome' by Thomas Cole, c. 1832, oil on paper on canvas - New Britain Museum of American Art - DSC09293, landscape painting by Thomas.

Open Source·Document·7 min read

Dn Turns Issues Into Agent Plans

dn turns GitHub issues and markdown specs into durable plans that agents can execute, review, and resume.

July 29, 2026·Rogier Muller

A Scene from Lalla Rookh, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1891).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·6 min read

Decispher Adds Grok CLI Support

Decispher now connects Grok CLI sessions to architectural decisions and reviewable agent traces.

July 28, 2026·Rogier Muller

Early Autumn, landscape painting by George Inness (1882).

Open Source·Document·7 min read

coding-agent-skill-library Serves Skills via MCP

coding-agent-skill-library exposes reusable agent skills through MCP, with a safe Cursor workflow and rule-file boundary.

July 27, 2026·Rogier Muller

Palace of Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev 5, landscape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky.

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Router Powers Auto Mode

Cursor Router powers Auto mode in Cursor, routing each request by task complexity and cost with admin controls.

July 26, 2026·Rogier Muller

Dream Journey to Mt. Tiantai, landscape painting by Qian Du (1814).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·3 min read

AgentCost Tracks Local Agent Spend

What local agent-cost logs can establish, where provider billing differs, and how to compare the two before changing a team’s workflow.

July 25, 2026·Rogier Muller

Lake George, New York, landscape painting by John Frederick Kensett (1872).

Open Source·Document·3 min read

Claudexor Routes Coding-Agent Quotas

Assess Claudexor with a disposable repository: check quota visibility, credential scope, patch review and evidence before routing production work.

July 22, 2026·Rogier Muller

Night Moon; Accordion Player by Moonlight, landscape painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1924).

Open Source·Document·7 min read

PocketVeto Is a Bluetooth Agent Remote

PocketVeto gates risky AI coding actions over Bluetooth and shows what Cursor users can borrow from the idea.

July 21, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape with a clump of trees, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1844).

Open Source·Document·6 min read

local-motion Runs Cursor Agents Locally

local-motion helps Cursor users run a local coding model on macOS and avoid the usual memory and setup traps.

July 11, 2026·Rogier Muller

A Breezy Day, Whittredge, 1880, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1880).

Cursor Features·Document·8 min read

Local MCP Connects Mac Apps to Agents

Local MCP connects AI assistants to Mac-only context, and the safe first test is a narrow, read-only MCP boundary.

July 8, 2026·Rogier Muller

Apollo unter den HirtenApollo among the shepherds, landscape painting by Joseph Anton Koch (1837).

Open Source·Document·9 min read

Router Picks Models Inside Cursor

A story-first look at workweave/router, smart model routing, and the Cursor skill rubric worth keeping.

July 3, 2026·Rogier Muller

Sea, landscape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (1897).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Cursor Guardrails for Real Teams

A practical guide to Cursor team workflows with rules, skills, MCP, subagents, and a rollout checklist.

July 2, 2026·Rogier Muller

Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Paysage du Midi - Pierre Bonnard (1917-1918) 46.5x48 Inv.2019, landscape painting by Pierre Bonnard (1917).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Cursor Rules vs AGENTS.md, a Team Playbook that Scales

How to split Cursor .mdc rules from AGENTS.md, so engineering teams get durable rules, skill handoffs, and reviews that scale.

July 1, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape after a Storm, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1835).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Use Cursor Agents With Guardrails

A practical Cursor team workflow for agents, rules, skills, AGENTS.md, MCP, and reviewable background-agent work.

June 30, 2026·Rogier Muller

Zonsondergang aan zee (Plage soleil couchant, Villerville)., landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1876).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

A Team Rubric for Cursor Skills

A practical Cursor convention for accepting skills, subagents, and rules before they become team defaults.

June 29, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape with Cows and Oaks, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1860).

Cursor Features·Document·8 min read

Roll Out Cursor Team Training

Plan a team Cursor rollout around repository instructions, focused agent tasks, scoped tools and a workshop exercise that tests the review process.

June 28, 2026·Rogier Muller

Arques Seine MartimePaul Huet 1839, landscape painting by Paul Huet (1839).

Cursor Features·Document·8 min read

Train Cursor Agents as a Team

A practical Cursor team rollout plan for rules, skills, subagents, and reviewable AI coding workflows.

June 27, 2026·Rogier Muller

Frühlingsabend, landscape painting by Ludwig Richter (1844).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Cursor Agents Need Team Conventions

A practical Cursor team convention for agents, rules, skills, AGENTS.md, and safer reviewable workflows.

June 26, 2026·Rogier Muller

Fire in London, Seen from Hampstead, landscape painting by John Constable (1826).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Use Cursor Rules as Team Rails

A practical Cursor rules workflow for teams using subagents, skills, AGENTS.md, and reviewable coding habits.

June 25, 2026·Rogier Muller

Landscape with Figures: A Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans", landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1826).

Cursor Features·Document·9 min read

Train Your Team on Cursor 3.9

Use Cursor 3.9’s Customize page to roll out rules, skills, subagents, MCPs, and team habits.

June 24, 2026·Rogier Muller

Farm in the Landes, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau (1852).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·8 min read

Govern Coding Agents by Skill

Shared Cursor skills need boundaries a reviewer can inspect, with different acceptance criteria for routine and sensitive changes.

June 22, 2026·Rogier Muller

Lonely Graves on the Colorado Plains, landscape painting by Worthington Whittredge (1886).

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Automation Team Conventions

A practical Cursor team convention for using /automate, rules, skills, AGENTS.md, and review habits safely.

June 21, 2026·Rogier Muller

iew of Lake Geneva from Pass de la Faucille, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor Rules for Team Automations

A practical Cursor team convention for rules, skills, AGENTS.md, and safe always-on automations.

June 20, 2026·Rogier Muller

Home by the Lake by Frederic Edwin Church, Crystal Bridges Museum, landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church.

Cursor Features·Document·7 min read

Cursor MCP for Team Workflows

A practical Cursor MCP guide for teams using rules, skills, automations, and reviewable agent workflows.

June 19, 2026·Rogier Muller

Het papaverveld bij Vaux Field of Poppies, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1872).

Cursor Features·Document·6 min read

Cursor Agents Team Checklist

A Cursor Workshop guide for using Cursor agents, rules, skills, and Bugbot in reviewable team workflows.

June 17, 2026·Rogier Muller

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Skills and Team Rules for Large Codebases

How Cursor skills, .cursor/skills files, and team rules work together so large codebases stay reviewable, not just faster to edit.

June 16, 2026·Rogier Muller

Trout Lake, landscape painting by Hamilton Hamilton (1879).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Skills for Team Workflows

Specific skill descriptions and scoped tasks help a team judge whether a Cursor handoff contains enough evidence to accept.

June 14, 2026·Rogier Muller

The Departure, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1837).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Jira workflows without chaos

Connect a Jira brief to the Cursor task, applicable rules and verification evidence so reviewers can compare the result with the request.

May 25, 2026·Rogier Muller

Along the river, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, landscape painting by Frits Thaulow (1903).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Automations in the Agents Window

Cursor 3.5 moves Automations into the Agents Window, with multi-repo and no-repo workflows for cursor ai teams.

May 22, 2026·Rogier Muller

A Snow Squall, landscape painting by Thomas Cole (1825).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Jira handoffs without drift

Turn Jira tickets into scoped Cursor tasks with clear acceptance criteria, shared instructions and a completion check before the ticket closes.

May 20, 2026·Rogier Muller

Farmyard with Ducks, landscape painting by Jules Dupré.

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor Composer 2.5 team guide

Organize Cursor team instructions into focused rules, single-purpose agent tasks and reusable skills, then review their scope with a shared checklist.

May 19, 2026·Rogier Muller

Holland – Strandkörbe Holland - Beach chairs, landscape painting by Wassily Kandinsky (1904).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor 3.4 cloud agents

A workflow note on Cursor 3.4 cloud agents: connector stewards, glob diets, prompt expiry tags, and receipts that survive remote runs.

May 15, 2026·Rogier Muller

Near East Hampton, Long Island, landscape painting by Thomas Moran (1894).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor Cloud Agent Setup and the Environment Contract

A practical guide to Cursor cloud agent setup, covering reproducible environments, a secrets boundary, and review evidence before agents edit.

May 14, 2026·Rogier Muller

Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors, landscape painting by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (1510).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor subagents and skills for teams

Cursor subagents and skills for team repos: glob diets, prompt expiry tags, skill preambles, and mutex paths that keep parallel work explainable.

May 13, 2026·Rogier Muller

Tigers and Leopard Frolicking, landscape painting by Unknown (1700).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor subagents and skills for teams

An operational memo on Cursor subagents and skills for teams: mutex paths, skill preambles, prompt expiry tags, and review receipts in the repo.

May 9, 2026·Rogier Muller

Beach at Cabasson (Baigne-Cul), landscape painting by Henri-Edmond Cross (1891).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor 3.3 context for subagents and skills

Cursor 3.3 context for subagents and skills: review receipts, connector stewards, glob diets, and expiry tags that cut merge-queue fatigue.

May 7, 2026·Rogier Muller

An Abbey by a Wooded Lake at Twilight, landscape painting by Paul Huet (1831).

Cursor Features·Document·5 min read

Cursor team controls for admins

Cursor team controls for admins as an operating guide: connector stewards, mutex paths, review receipts, and rules that stay trustworthy.

May 5, 2026·Rogier Muller

Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley, landscape painting by George Inness (1867).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor Canvases for team workflows

A guide for using Cursor Canvases as decision artifacts that bind owners, paths, and rules, instead of diagrams that drift away from review.

May 4, 2026·Rogier Muller

Fishing Village, landscape painting by Théodore Rousseau.

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor team marketplace: rules with named owners

A Cursor team marketplace works when shared rules, skills, and MCP connectors carry named owners: review receipts, stewards, glob diets, expiry tags.

May 2, 2026·Rogier Muller

Boats on the Seacoast at Étaples, landscape painting by Charles-François Daubigny (1871).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·4 min read

Narrow skills for coding agents beat broad ones

Skills for coding agents stay reviewable when each one has a single job, a declared scope, and a pinned verification command. Broad skills hide drift.

April 13, 2026·Rogier Muller

Leaving the Oasis, landscape painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1880).

Methodology·Document·5 min read

Markdown files for coding agents: the real interface

Markdown files for coding agents, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, rules, and connector cards, are the contract layer that keeps agent work reviewable and owned.

March 27, 2026·Rogier Muller

Gibbons in a Landscape, landscape painting by Unknown (1900).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·5 min read

How returning Markdown from docs shapes agentic coding

Returning markdown from docs gives Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex one reviewable contract: scope, constraints, verification, and owner on every run.

March 13, 2026·Rogier Muller

Evening, landscape painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1880).

AI-Assisted Coding·Document·3 min read

Cursor .mdc vs CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md

Compare Cursor .mdc rules, Claude Code CLAUDE.md, and Codex AGENTS.md: what each file controls, where it belongs, and how teams review it.

March 11, 2026·Rogier Muller

Maine Coast, landscape painting by Rockwell Kent (1907).

Cursor Features·Document·4 min read

Cursor 2.4 subagents and skills for engineering teams

A Cursor 2.4 operating model for subagents and skills: scope ledgers, rule precedence, artifact-first review, and a one-branch training drill.

January 28, 2026·Rogier Muller

What you should do next

If one article names a change you have not tried, run it on a branch. If the team needs the same Review habit, book a 15-minute sync or open training.

Book a 15-minute sync