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A user praises Cursor's 'Projects' feature as part of a 'killer combo' with the pstack plugin, reporting significant improvements in code quality, development speed, and token efficiency for AI-assisted software development.

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I had posted this as a reply to another thread but I think people might find it useful so im posting it as a stand alone post. For those that may have already read it.I'm sorry for the redundancy. tl;dr: This is the killer combo that uses the Projects feature: Projects + pstack Long Version: **1. Establish a project coordinator agent by starting a project and connecting it to your Git Hub repo** (I don't use Origin, but I'm sure it would work the same way) **2. Install the pstack plug-in. It's open source and free.** pstack is a Cursor plugin created by Cursor engineer Lauren Tan (poteto on X) that turns AI coding agents into a structured engineering workflow with 23 workflow skills, 21 engineering principles, 22 task playbooks, and 2 specialized subagents. This plug-in has captured her own workflow at Cursor that enables her to merge 2000+ PRs each month. When you install the pstack plug-in you summon the most leading-edge cloud agent development workflow available anywhere. You can geek out on the details, or (if you want to keep things simple) you can just provide a task to your Project coordinator agent along with the command /poteto-mode. One of the many, many things it does in the background is it tells the cursor project agent how to evaluate the task (depending on whether its a bug fix, new feature, refactoring, etc) and then breaks the task into small, gated...

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  • Using that method (which all happens in the background, orchestrated by the cursor project coordinator agent), the code quality is significantly boosted, as is the speed of development. And you can do 80+ % of your work done with Composer at an insanely high level of quality and speed.

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  • “Have you actually tried /poteto-mode on a real task yet, or are you still in the setup phase? The reason I ask is that most people I've seen get hyped about pstack seem to stop using it after the first week because the workflow friction doesn't match how they actually code.”

    u/EzoLabsInc5 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “How does the projects feature change this? Most of what you are saying is that pstack is awesome (i agree). Does projects add anything?”

    u/benjamingrx1 points · Sep 28, 2026View

  • “Is it newbie friendly?”

    u/Orchidkit1 points · Sep 28, 2026View

  • “Killercombo: dont use cursor anymore and switch to cc which is 20x better and faster”

    u/National_Cake_59251 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “ai slop generated ad”

    u/SpareImpression3155-6 points · Sep 27, 2026View

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