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Onboarding catalog

Reading paths

Path You are… Suggested order
A — First time, non-technical New to Cursor and agentic AI; want quick wins without the terminal Installing CursorBuilding with agentic AIFirst-week checklistAI contextSession playbook
B — Git and sharing Ready to save versions, use GitHub, or publish a site Git basics for non-developersPublic vs private Git
C — Full workspace / power user Setting up a private repo with backlogs, rules, commands, and automation Everything below, then INDEX-full-workspace-only.md for paths not in this public repo
D — Technical deep dives Want the research papers and engineering behind LLMs and agents ai-engineering/ — context engineering, LLM foundations, agentic AI, full-stack development, AI services (54 curated sources)

All artifacts

Artifact Location Status Notes
Installing Cursor and first steps guides/installing-cursor-and-first-steps.md Ready Download, first folder, first chat, two modes
Building with agentic AI (non-technical) guides/building-with-agentic-ai-non-technical.md Ready Mindset, safety, first prompts, Plan vs Agent
First week (non-technical) checklists/first-week-cursor-non-technical.md Ready Light daily checklist for days 1–7
Working with AI context guides/working-with-ai-context.md Ready New chats, truth in files, long thread decay
Cursor session playbook guides/cursor-session-playbook.md Ready (v1) Terminal, GitHub CLI, deploy, journaling
Git basics for non-developers guides/git-basics-for-non-developers.md Ready (v1) Clone, commit, push, GitHub Pages
Cursor triggers and prompts guides/cursor-triggers-and-prompts.md Ready (v1) Phrases, Plan vs Agent, slash commands
Public vs private Git guides/public-vs-private-git-strategy.md Ready (v1) What to publish vs keep private
Finding backlog and paths guides/finding-backlog-and-paths.md Ready For workspaces that have a backlog file
Transcript scan (scripted) guides/enable-transcript-backlog-scan.md Ready v0 Requires scripts/ — see INDEX-full-workspace-only.md
Slash commands (reference) reference/slash-commands.md Ready Summaries without .cursor/ on disk
Curated links links/README.md Active Official docs, safety, research
Snippets snippets/README.md Partial Backlog shortcut
Checklists hub checklists/README.md Active First-week + stubs
Guides hub guides/README.md Active All longer guides
PM glossary ../product-management/GLOSSARY.md Ready (v0) Plain-language definitions
Mobile web UX ../cursor-knowledge/mobile-web-design.md Ready (v1) Tables, touch, responsive
Full workspace extras INDEX-full-workspace-only.md Reference Handbook, inbox, .cursor paths

Publication policy: Public vs private Git strategy — guides and onboarding are public-safe; canonical backlogs stay private.