the first piece is to have the primitives in place like database, servers, networking, workers etc i've setup this on aws with terraform

second step is to make sure agent is aware of all primitives. here's a cursor rules i've defined to make it aware of what it can use. this outlines building blocks, references examples and points to MCP tools for introspection

with this, i only need to setup the following once - security groups in network stack - auth middleware t1hat intercepts all routes - reusable frontend components (s/o @shadcn ) - boilerplate workflow to be used as reference for best practices

once configured, i can start directing agent to build what i want for me

this is one of many ways you can use cursor, hope it was helpful! i wrote about this in longer form almost a year ago if you're interested in reading more https://anyblockers.com/posts/...