CursorAI/Forum/24/02/Composer Agent Refined Workflow - Detailed Instructions and Example Repo for Practice

• Composer Agent Refined Workflow - Detailed Instructions and Example Repo for Practice - How To - Cursor - Community Forum
  • #Observations
    • longer post, lots of compelling, concrete suggestions on how to follow
  • #Quotes
    • High level
      • a .ai folder is the project mgmt history and memory for the project or task at hand.
      • with each item, it creates a story file with breakdown in great detail of how it will meet the objective, and then waits for my review of it.
      • once I approve it will execute and generally also use TDD
      • sometimes it thinks it is done, so i will tell it to run the tests (if it did not) and it will iterate on testing until it is all working
      • Between stories, I start a new chat - the nice thing is I can just greet the AI or ask it whats up, and it will know and suggest to generate a new story file or continue on the current one.
    • CursorAI/Agent/Cost

      • Using Agent mode in cursor of course it not the most cost effective, but it will give you a glimpse ... it works very well!
        

      • don’t burn tool usage on simple things that you can be scripted into simple commands
        

      • CursorAI/Technique/Frontload Design

        • Spend the MOST time on your plan / what you want to have built in the end, a good PRD with tech stack, constraints, preferences, clear goal, and details Story breakdown.
          

        • Once Other cheaper / free models bugs are worked out, they will be better to use for generating stories and updating the PRD in an iterative fashion with the AI in cursor - in the meantime, feel the credit burn, or use external AI tool (especially for the PRD)
          

    • More details and best practices in the repo GitHub/bmadcode/hak-news-aiadd-1 - you can get an idea after a few days of running it through this process - it implemented the 9 stories in the .ai folder.