Cursor use cases
35 real things people got Cursor to do, each with what they asked, how it went, and the prompt to copy.
Automate invoice organizing and monthly invoice emails
The author demos Cursor sorting inconsistently named invoice files and handling monthly invoicing by editing a PDF, attaching it, checking the recipient and sending the email.
Automate per-room heating control in Home Assistant
A homeowner built an add-on and MCP server so Cursor could write and deploy Home Assistant automations for per-room temperature control, iterating through five versions over a weekend.
Build a homepage from Figma designs via MCP
The author connected Figma to Cursor over MCP to build a new homepage for a font archive, with great results after Lovable disappointed.
Build a mental models framework with a multi-agent dev team with Claude
A solo founder used Claude, ChatGPT, Windsurf and Cursor as role-based team members to design, test and deploy a 120-model mental-models framework and MCP server.
Build a minigame collection in a day
A data professional drafted a prompt with ChatGPT and used Cursor agent mode to build a Python tkinter game with four minigames.
Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles
Cursor Agent writes and maintains interlinked markdown pages from user-supplied sources, summarizing and cross-referencing, with Obsidian used to browse.
Build a project management tool with a 24-hour agent run
Ran a Cursor agent continuously for 24 hours to build a project management tool; the app fully works but is not production ready.
Build an invitation card website purely by prompting
A user built a frontend-only invitation site with animations, images and navigation for his girlfriend, giving instructions to Cursor without touching the code.
Coordinate sub-agents to monitor PRs and fix prod bugs
A Cursor Projects coordinator agent delegates to sub-agents, watches new PRs and production bugs, spins up agents to fix issues, and surfaces questions to the user.
Debug prod pods and docker-compose with Cursor
A DevOps engineer uses Cursor with a Kubernetes MCP to pull prod logs and suggest fixes, and to repair a broken docker-compose file.
Draft articles quoting Kindle highlights and notes
The author saves Kindle highlights and event notes in Obsidian and has Cursor reference them to quote past reading when drafting articles.
Draft newsletters and social posts in your own voice
A marketer built a Cursor workflow that learns from his content and scraped posts to write newsletters, LinkedIn posts and threads from raw notes.
Draft personalized outbound, recaps and forecasts for sales
Cursor's internal ChatGTM drafts signal-based outbound messages with personalized landing pages, call recap emails and follow-ups, and assembles the deal forecast.
Grade Cursor on a real data science project
A data scientist tested Cursor on a real project: weak on pandas, data cleansing and scraping, strong at prototyping.
Investigate customer errors and draft tickets in support
Cursor's support team uses Cursor with MCP to pull Datadog logs, search past cases, and draft a Linear bug ticket and customer reply.
Keep coding agents running autonomously for long stretches
Cursor's write-up on scaling long-running autonomous coding.
Let Cursor maintain an Obsidian notes vault
Cursor reviews vault structure, suggests connections, answers questions about notes and writes a daily done note documenting other agent sessions.
Migrate 180 microservices to a new framework version
Brex built Cursor-based self-correcting agents that let one engineer migrate 180 microservices to a newer Micronaut version in about a month.
Monitor tasks and open pull requests with long-running agents
A commenter runs a persistent script that watches tasks and uses Cursor to open pull requests, building a documentation summarizer and a data pipeline.
Playtest a Godot 4 game with a Cursor agent
A Cursor plugin and subagent lets an agent capture screenshots and click through UI flows of a Godot 4 game like a player.
Process and query email across providers via MCP agents
A developer built an email intelligence product using agents and MCP, running on open-source models, that lets LLMs query Gmail and Outlook mailboxes; in private beta.
Prototype product features as a non-coding PM
A founder used Cursor agents to find prototype gaps, draw ASCII wireframes, and plan and implement a feature with parallel agents in worktrees.
Queue maintenance and bug fixes for Cursor background agents
A developer authorized the GitHub app so Cursor background agents cloned repos into sandboxes, branched, and worked through a day's queue of maintenance, features and bug fixes.
Reverse engineer a Go binary with Ghidra via MCP
Huli had Cursor drive GhidraMCP to identify a Golang binary, list its routes and find a path traversal, but it missed the SQL injection check.
Run a coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Drawgent is a coding agent that works on a live Excalidraw canvas.
Run a private personal-admin agent in Cursor
The author uses Cursor for personal admin like drafting a dentist appointment email, using private notes and rules that keep personal details out of public drafts.
Run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard
A Rippling engineer's Cursor cron agent runs every two hours, reading Slack notes, GitHub PRs, Jira issues and mentions, deduplicating them and posting a dashboard.
Run Terraform plan and apply through an MCP agent
The author had Cursor run Terraform against Postgres via MCP; the apply hit a permissions error and he finished from the terminal.
Scaffold a new service end to end with agents
Cursor agents create Terraform, k8s manifests and CI, validate them and open a draft PR; one cleanup run wrongly deleted Terraform files.
Ship a backlog landing page from a ticket spec
Cursor's background agent built a pricing landing page from a short spec in about 5 minutes on a new branch and opened a PR.
Troubleshoot a production-only performance issue
A developer used Cursor and Warp agents to analyze NestJS database queries and recommend indexes for a production performance problem.
Upgrade site dependencies and frameworks with Cursor
Kent C. Dodds had Cursor's agent look up migration docs, plan and upgrade Remix v2 to React Router v7 and xstate in his site.
Use Cursor for academic paper writing with citations
Forum users write papers in markdown with Zotero citations and a bibtex file for Cursor to pick references from, converting to Word with pandoc.
Vibe-code a Flappy Bird game for DeskHog
A PostHog tutorial has Cursor in Agent mode write a Flappy Bird-style game for the DeskHog device from its README and hardware details.
Vibe-code a pull request dashboard across Azure DevOps repos with ChatGPT
Author used ChatGPT for architecture and the Junie agent in WebStorm to build a dashboard aggregating PRs across four repos, flagging approvals, conflicts and comments, in about 3 hours.