Announcing the CoreStory + Cursor Agentic Bug Resolution Playbook

Give Cursor a repeatable way to fix bugs

With the CoreStory + Cursor Agentic Bug Resolution Playbook, we’re bringing a production-ready, agent-powered bug fix workflow to Cursor users. The playbook pairs CoreStory’s code intelligence with Cursor’s Project Rules so that whenever you ask Cursor to fix an issue, it follows a structured process: understand intent, write a failing test, apply the smallest safe fix, and validate against real system behavior.

It’s bug fixing as a reusable pattern instead of a one-off prompt.

Why this matters in Cursor

Cursor is powerful precisely because it can act on your entire workspace—but that power needs guardrails. By combining always-on Project Rules with CoreStory’s understanding of your architecture, we can ensure every investigation follows the same high-signal steps and produces the same high-quality artifacts: tests, diffs, structured commit messages, and ticket updates.

What this playbook helps you do

With this playbook in place, Cursor will:

• Auto-activate a six-phase bug workflow via a .cursorrules.mdc file
• Pull ticket context or free-form bug descriptions and open a CoreStory investigation thread
• Query CoreStory for architecture, invariants, data structures, and recent changes
• Map symptoms to concrete code paths and generate hypotheses
• Write a failing test first, apply a minimal fix, and validate against CoreStory plus your test suite

Every fix ends with a consistent set of artifacts ready for code review and CI.

What’s inside

The playbook gives you:

• A prebuilt .cursorrules configuration tuned for bug resolution
• Prompt patterns, checkpoints, and artifact templates (tests, diffs, commit messages, ticket updates)
• Guidance for wiring in GitHub, Jira, Linear, or Azure DevOps tickets
• Suggestions for CI hooks that enforce “no fix without tests”

Who this is for

If your team is deep in Cursor already and you’d like to standardize how agents participate in production bug work—especially across multiple repos or microservices—this playbook is designed for you.

How to get started

Read the playbook, add the recommended .cursorrules file to a pilot repo, connect it to CoreStory, and choose a small stream of real bugs to run through the workflow. Track time-to-root-cause, fix speed, and regression rates to determine rollout.