Guides

Longer onboarding and reference documents. New here? Start at the top.

Guide	Description
Installing Cursor and first steps	Start here — download, open a folder, first AI conversation, two modes
Building with agentic AI (non-technical)	Mindset, safety, Plan vs Agent, first prompts, bridge to project work
Working with AI context	Long chats vs new thread; repo as memory; rules vs chat context
Cursor session playbook	Plan vs Agent, terminal hygiene, GitHub CLI, static site deploy, journaling and backlog patterns
Git basics for non-developers	Clone, commit, push, GitHub Pages deploy
Public vs private Git strategy	What ships public vs private; handbook --public
Cursor triggers and prompts	Slash commands (see also ../reference/slash-commands.md), natural phrases, Plan vs Agent
Finding backlog and paths	Where BACKLOG.md lives in a full workspace; Quick Open, Explorer, Finder, terminal
Enable transcript backlog scan	Full workspace: local script to draft todos from agent-transcripts — see ../INDEX-full-workspace-only.md

Slash command summaries that work without .cursor/ on disk: ../reference/slash-commands.md.

Add new files here; update ../INDEX.md.