Real AI agent use cases, with sources and setup prompts
What people actually run with Cursor agents, from daily cloud automations to side-by-side coding agents. 24 matching use cases below, each with a public source.
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ChatVault collects chats from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor across accounts, lets you search the whole history and keeps local backups.
Built ShipToPaid: coding-agent skills plus a Next.js starter that wires Polar or Stripe payments, webhooks and paywalls for Codex, Claude Code and Cursor.
AppVitals flags exposed keys, open databases and API leaks in AI-built sites. Cursor agents wrote it and Grok Bot orchestrated, in under 48 hours.
Shipped thred so Claude, Codex, Cursor and future agents share one MCP memory for decisions, revisions, evidence and unfinished work.
A builder made a tracker that puts 18 coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex and more) side by side and logs every pricing change with sources.
Paste a URL (or localhost) and say what to show; Claude Code, Codex or Cursor drives a real browser on your machine and hands back the demo video, using the subscription you already pay for.
On day 1 of learning AI coding, the author built a game about tossing floppy disks into a trash can in HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Phaser, mainly to learn Cursor's controls.
Running Claude Code, Codex, Grok and Cursor in four terminals meant copying work between them by hand, so a former café owner and trader built Hivelane: one agent leads and the rest are on call.
The author runs scheduled Cursor cloud agents every day: one scrapes Wispr, Zoom and Gemini meeting transcripts into Obsidian, one triages Gmail, one updates a CRM with new leads, and one builds a morning briefing that Grok Bot prints out.
Built a gallery of 120+ real apps people shipped with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Claude Code, Replit and v0 that updates itself from X.
Built a coding-agent skill that asks ChatGPT-style engines the questions buyers ask and reports which brands they name.
Tired of clicking through the LWS panel, the author built lws-mcp, an open-source MCP server so you can say "Add Stripe's DNS records" in Claude, Codex or Cursor and have it done and verified.
Pando runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok and Cursor side by side with one shared memory, undo for any task, tests after every change and vibe coding from your phone.
Graphicle maps your repo into a code graph, remembers docs, decisions and past agent sessions, and hands Claude Code, Cursor or Codex the exact files and lines. It runs locally with no API key, account or telemetry.
Shrine shows what your Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor and Grok Bot sessions are doing on your Mac; pushes and merged PRs furnish a small pixel room.
Built Jevcrawl, an MCP and CLI crawler that finds answer pages more often without calling an LLM while crawling.
Built a remote MCP with 1.2M physicians and Medicare procedure volumes so agents can recommend doctors with sourced facts.
Drop a raw talking-head recording into an AI agent and get back a finished Reel with cuts, word-synced captions, motion graphics, sound effects and music. The skill pack works in Hermes, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Built ArtifactSmith, an MCP server that turns agent chat walls into real pages in web, PDF, Word and Excel with six styles.
Built Tack, a free Mac app that combines talk + screenshots into one prompt and pastes it into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any app with screenshots at the right spots.
Built SwarmPane to run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok and Cursor in parallel panes with attention cues.
Built a Mac tool so coding agents can paint large arrows, boxes and text overlays on the screen to point at UI.
Vibe-coded MySkool so agents can score churn risk, welcome members and answer the feed for Skool community owners.
Shared Alook, an open-source Discord-style workspace where Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents join team rooms.
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