Queue repository maintenance in background agents and finish the branch in Cursor
At a glance
Zack Proser's review describes assigning repository-and-branch-specific maintenance jobs to Cursor Agents, following up in each task's own context, and opening the changes directly in the editor for hands-on refinement. This workflow is listed under builder, cursor-agents, background-coding, branch-handoff, maintenance.
Zachary Proser queues 5–7 maintenance, bugfix, and small-feature tasks each morning; Cursor background agents clone sandboxes, branch, and open draft PRs with ~70–80% one-shot success.
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