Workflow
Teach Cursor your standards before you judge its output
A lot of the ecosystem is really about encoding persistent conventions through rules, MDC files, and reusable project playbooks rather than endlessly rewriting prompts.
Workflow
Package repeatable work as skills
Skills let users turn recurring multi-step work into portable capability packs, which is a major branch of how advanced Cursor users scale beyond a single chat thread.
Workflow
Expand context through MCP, not just bigger chat history
The extension layer increasingly solves context problems by connecting Cursor to external systems, documentation, browsers, and tool APIs via MCP and marketplace integrations.
Workflow
Instrument the agent once the work gets real
Logs, saved sessions, stats bars, dashboards, and browser-debug surfaces show up when teams start trusting Cursor for real development work and need to understand behavior, cost, and history.
Workflow
Treat cloud, CLI, and model routing as escalation layers
Remote agents, command-line flows, and provider-routing tools matter strategically, but they are usually the second move after understanding the editor and conventions layer first.