Cursor: capabilities, use cases, and sources

Cursor plans, writes, and reviews code using AI agents that understand your entire codebase. Everywhere you work: Desktop, CLI, Web & Mobile. Key features: When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own, GitHub was founded in 2008 as a social coding platform with a very prescient tagline, "Git repository hosting: no longer a pain in the ass, Its platform started as (and mostly still is) a Rails monolith, When agents work with Git repositories at scale, they often operate outside of a monorepo by creating vast numbers of small repositories, many of them throwaway, and most of them barely touched, We (our agents, our web interface, our clients) always see a globally consistent view of the repository, Millions of tiny repositories created by agents can be served with one replica each, Each time you push to a remote copy of a repository, or fetch into your local copy, you create a new packfile, it now supports multi-pack indexes and incremental geometric compaction.