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Cursor best practices

I’m using cursor, so I’m wondering if I should go over best practices of using it first. This is to ensure as I work on my projects, I don’t get overwhelmed by complexity.

• Before using cursor, ask Claude to create a clear and detailed plan in markdown (ask it to ask clarifying questions and then critique its own plan and then regenerate). Add it to instructions.md (so you can ask cursor to refer to it frequently)
  • I tell chatgpt what I want to create, then I ask it to provide instructions for another AI which will do the coding. Then I paste everything into the cursor composer agent.
  • Basically chatgpt adds another layer of planning which reduces the rate of encountering problems.
  • On one project cursor was running into some issues and couldn’t figure it out no matter what, I wasted hours stuck in a loop. Then I started from scratch, but this time I asked chatgpt 01 to write clear instructions for another coding AI. It worked like a charm.
• **Use .cursor/rules (they

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[{
    "href": "http://blogs.rdoproject.org/7761/hands-on-linux-sandbox-with-namespaces-and-cgroups",
    "description": "Hands on Linux sandbox with namespaces and cgroups",
    "extended": "",
    "meta": "e00cc75e6b9940c23bf4d1463f3ca953",
    "hash": "dfcd7a85564dcfea336b8a3c1f091f09",
    "time": "2016-06-05T01:07:31Z",
    "shared": "yes",
    "toread": "no",
    "tags": "linux namespaces cgroups sandbox"

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/* http://localhost:9307/a-ytv9/implementing-notion-like-table-of-contents-in-javascript.html */

.toc-wrapper {
  position: fixed;
  top: 1rem;
  right: 1rem;
  z-index: 50;

  max-height: calc(100vh - 2rem);
  overflow-y: auto;

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/fs"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"path"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"

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const fontCheck = new Set([
  // Windows 10
'Arial', 'Arial Black', 'Bahnschrift', 'Calibri', 'Cambria', 'Cambria Math', 'Candara', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Consolas', 'Constantia', 'Corbel', 'Courier New', 'Ebrima', 'Franklin Gothic Medium', 'Gabriola', 'Gadugi', 'Georgia', 'HoloLens MDL2 Assets', 'Impact', 'Ink Free', 'Javanese Text', 'Leelawadee UI', 'Lucida Console', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Marlett', 'Microsoft Himalaya', 'Microsoft JhengHei', 'Microsoft New Tai Lue', 'Microsoft PhagsPa', 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Microsoft Tai Le', 'Microsoft YaHei', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'MingLiU-ExtB', 'Mongolian Baiti', 'MS Gothic', 'MV Boli', 'Myanmar Text', 'Nirmala UI', 'Palatino Linotype', 'Segoe MDL2 Assets', 'Segoe Print', 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'SimSun', 'Sitka', 'Sylfaen', 'Symbol', 'Tahoma', 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS', 'Verdana', 'Webdings', 'Wingdings', 'Yu Gothic',
  // macOS
  'American Typewriter', 'Andale Mono', 'Arial', 'Aria

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{
 "kind": "drive#fileList",
 "etag": "\"dNzmxTQXf93-URXXV2e6HTjz4Uc\"",
 "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files",
 "nextPageToken": "~!!~AI9FV7TLkZbjkzrcrQWqhRUpOMAeA1WkjFDTn3zHXVv9Bigb-9iLCYw1O-ezzFljevtOfWIZHjy_rDWE0T7_taMq9ue72WfcfGr4r8VKaM-pqUFxxBP0o8rc8qCJPeQv_jatR0rlEjSnK8kw0WwyrsH5TniY5bdOrXh-_I1ikH26dtRCjTXQcQBAfaKhQapG63E5TNk4UdOcuvp3pGlIxKA7IP59ycgYEHFfGEN7cF3DUz9JnuCbjBjK3eS6XB1J8UqBVzgeL1kdRZo5j9lfMIC6sQHihLH9-haQR7pfqT6dbm-ffNtoCITzTuv4aCrP21Qbq5LqdzcZ",
 "nextLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files?pageToken=~!!~AI9FV7TLkZbjkzrcrQWqhRUpOMAeA1WkjFDTn3zHXVv9Bigb-9iLCYw1O-ezzFljevtOfWIZHjy_rDWE0T7_taMq9ue72WfcfGr4r8VKaM-pqUFxxBP0o8rc8qCJPeQv_jatR0rlEjSnK8kw0WwyrsH5TniY5bdOrXh-_I1ikH26dtRCjTXQcQBAfaKhQapG63E5TNk4UdOcuvp3pGlIxKA7IP59ycgYEHFfGEN7cF3DUz9JnuCbjBjK3eS6XB1J8UqBVzgeL1kdRZo5j9lfMIC6sQHihLH9-haQR7pfqT6dbm-ffNtoCITzTuv4aCrP21Qbq5LqdzcZ",
 "incompleteSearch": false,
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "drive#file",

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/* Copyright 2022 the SumatraPDF project authors (see AUTHORS file).
   License: Simplified BSD (see COPYING.BSD) */

#include "utils/BaseUtil.h"
#include "utils/ScopedWin.h"
#include "utils/Dpi.h"
#include "utils/WinUtil.h"

#include "wingui/Layout.h"
#include "wingui/Window.h"

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
    "github.com/gomarkdown/markdown"
    "github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/parser"
)

const md = `
- [level-1-b](#level-1)

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"encoding/json"
	"github.com/tidwall/pretty"
)

var prettyOpts = pretty.Options{
	Width:  80,

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#include <iostream>       // std::cout
#include <atomic>         // std::atomic, std::memory_order_relaxed
#include <thread>         // std::thread

std::atomic_int foo (0);

void set_foo(int x) {
  foo.store(x);     // set value atomically
}