Let a bot route review work through Cursor
A developer used Cursor as the review step in a bot-led coding workflow, and the handoff spread to more of the build process.
- What they did
- A developer had a bot create an app, then pass the finished code to Cursor for a check before moving on. After that, the same bot began sending additional programming tasks to Cursor rather than handling them itself. In the thread, another person said they run a project-manager bot that hands jobs to Cursor cloud agents and switches to Codex or ChatGPT via GitHub when Cursor is busy, while a different commenter leaves Opus 5.5 running overnight on their own computer and then copies the files onto their device.
- How it went
- Several people in the discussion said the approach works for coding work. The original poster and one commenter also reported a downside: once Cursor was part of the process, the bot kept choosing it and would not revert to the earlier direct GitHub setup.
- Tips
- One practical caution was to name the model you want and disable fast mode in Cursor. If you rely on handoffs, decide in advance which steps the agent can do on its own and which ones need your okay.
Try it yourself with Cursor
You are reviewing [repo, branch, or set of files] for [role, for example senior engineer]. Find bugs, security issues, weak test coverage, and confusing code. Give me a severity-ranked list with the file and line for each item, plus a fix suggestion. Do not change, submit, or send any code until I confirm; before any action that could be irreversible, stop and ask for my approval.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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