pull request
A proposal to merge one branch into another, with room for review and automated checks before it lands.
Where it comes up
Cursor Automations
“So, we can see that okay, the agent went ahead and one-shotted um it added a button right here. So, if I were to test it out here, indeed, it goes back uh light mode, dark mode. It looks pretty good, right? Um so, if it looks good and I fee…”
PRD to PR
“Okay. All right, sweet. I think we can get started. Looks like we got about 450 people here. Um sweet. So, this session is called PRD to PR. Uh it's a very brandable name, I think. Uh but basically what it is it's it's going to walk you thr…”
Cursor x Slack
“Let's see what's wrong with the payments code, right?" Like no no reference to like what the repo is or that code lives cuz I mean Steven for this purpose doesn't know that. And then says like, "Hey, can we create a fix and open a PR?" So w…”
Cursor 201
“local dev environment. So we launch this container and then we check out your repo into this container and then an agent works within that container to make changes, test those changes, um and uh then it can uh connect to your GitHub and po…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“you go make this change and create a pull request?" And the outcome is Cursor actually responding in this conversation, giving a summary of what changes have been made, and then creating a pull request that can then be reviewed and merge, r…”
Cursor 201
“in the middle and then the very end is like okay now that we've done that action what do we do next so do I I post in slack do I open a PR based on the fix that we just made and you can even target target it to a specific model here as well…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“kicked off a a a cloud agent earlier. And what's really cool about cloud agent is it not only provides you diff file of the PR that it created, it also gives you internally we call it artifacts. These artifacts are screenshots as well as sc…”
Cursor x Datadog
“alert uh, automation. So, I'll have a new message that occurs in a channel. I'll have an instruction that says use the DataDog MCP to inspect it. It would do exactly what you saw uh, locally where DataDog everything will run, it'll look at…”
Cursor 101
“Can you run BugBot within cursor and not just from PR's automatically? This is actually a great question and I believe the answer is yes. Though it might be in the editor window. Yes, let's see if I can find that in my I might still want cu…”
Developer Productivity Trends
“pillars that we think of with metrics uh that I've seen work really well. The first is on the left um velocity and the second is quality. I think these twin pillars can really really help in a very quantitative way help you sort of start to…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“to produce code for like cursor is going to help me write it but it's going to be me that merges the PR or approves something and so I need to make sure that I understand it for myself. And so if I if I just understand what the model produc…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“you would define or there's nothing titled PRD at the company. It was very much just conversations in Slack and people building stuff. But um I think now it's like you know just a lot of building prototypes like or and honestly like our pro…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“Up here at the top, there's this button for find issues. This is a way to launch an agent to start reviewing the code here in cursor before we even create a commit or PR. I can give it some additional optional instructions. Right, I could h…”
Cloud Agents
“on specific triggers, so a Slack message, um a GitHub PR, or on a cron job to actually do these continuous tasks that should always be running. And one thing I did want to highlight is we internally use cloud agents a lot. Um ever since kin…”
Cursor for Finance Teams
“uh correction in the system." Um if I was an engineer, I could actually go and actually create this PR directly from this conversation and push that into production um for review. And so, the entire process can be essentially like shrunk do…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“like if there was a workflow that you were doing before you created a PR that you want to almost have a persona of that thing. Um, like verify that all of my changes were implemented to spec. Go run this sub agent. It's more than just a pro…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“code deserves extra scrutiny during review. And so this is something that uh we are excited to roll out recently as well. And then in terms of where we're going, we're continuing [clears throat] to kind of add in additional features to the…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“And so, maybe I want to address all the PR comments. And so, that way I can have Agent work on what other folks are asking it to fix. Um so, I'll be going back and let's look at the skill that my Agent created for me. So, it has the Databri…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“notice that I'm actually orchestrating multiple agents at the same time here. I'm focusing on like implementing this PR but in the background I also had a backend agent building out my backend. So really this idea of like being able to orch…”
Cursor for Support Teams
“Cool. Um, so we'll just have this please implement these doc change. Yep, actually I did that. Sorry. Um, so we'll just review and take a look. Uh, click recording system uses optimistic updates. Yep, looks great. Um, please render the doc…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“just pulling a simple PR from Confluence. Notice I'm using cloud 4.5 Sona here. you have the ability to switch between different models and you can use of course either anthropic models or Google or bini and you can even switch your own int…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“suite, uh fixing compile errors, creating a pull request, spinning up local servers. These are all things that typically take more than one action to kick off. Uh let's use for example um committing and pushing some new code. Uh when you co…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“different cloud agents for reviewing code quality before that even gets to uh a PR or something like your your Git repo. And then, oh yeah, I see another question just around what does barrel-shaped mean in that previous slide context. And…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“So when you do make such a change, which wouldn't necessarily be every single PR. So you don't necessarily want it to apply to every single rule, then then the the agent will go ahead and invoke the skill. It can see the names and descripti…”