Index
Guides
Pick your tool. Each guide opens with a short version for people who know it already, then explains things in plain English.
Cursor
Getting started with Cursor
Install on Mac, Windows, or Linux, then Tab, Inline edit, Agent’s four modes, context with @, and how to undo with Checkpoints.
Cursor setup that survives updates
The three surfaces, where configuration actually lives on disk, and a config-repo pattern that does not evaporate on the next update.
MCP server stuck red in Cursor
The real error sits in a log panel most people never open. How to read it, and the auth, environment and name-collision causes behind most failures.
.cursorrules is deprecated — here is the migration
The documented four-step migration, what the four rule types actually do, and how to split one always-on blob into rules that scope themselves.
Cursor Cloud Agents: repo vs environment
A Cloud Agent boots its own machine and clones your repo. What that means for uncommitted files, secrets, and MCP servers that only work locally.
Claude Code
Getting started with Claude Code
Native install on Mac, Linux, WSL, and Windows, first session in a real project, a read-first prompt, then one small change before you write CLAUDE.md.
CLAUDE.md that actually works
Where Claude Code looks for memory files, why they concatenate rather than override, how long yours should be, and how to check what actually loaded.
Claude Code mods: live panes, guards and slash commands
A mod is a plugin of function hooks that hot-reloads in a running session. Its three files, what hooks can do, and short examples: status line, Bash guard, slash command.
Grok Bot
Starter jobs with copyable prompts live on the Bot desk.
Mistral
Where they overlap
Using Claude with Cursor
Rules, MCP and settings are configured separately in each tool — except CLAUDE.md, which both of them read. What each one owns.
CLAUDE.md vs .cursor/rules: which one wins
Cursor reads both files. Claude Code never reads .cursor/rules. The relationship is asymmetric, documented, and not what most people assume.
AWS integration with Cursor, Claude, and Grok
Cursor’s Bedrock BYOK routing, Claude Code’s first-class Bedrock provider, the three separate things called “Grok”, and the awslabs MCP servers — what actually runs on your AWS account.