# How to improve/optimize my current workflow? Any suggestion?

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-improve-optimize-my-current-workflow-any-suggestion/150535>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** mcp, rules, auto-mode, plan-mode\
**Created:** [February 1, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-improve-optimize-my-current-workflow-any-suggestion/150535 "2026-02-01T14:35:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![leventoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@leventoz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/leventoz)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-improve-optimize-my-current-workflow-any-suggestion/150535/1 "2026-02-01T14:35:04Z")

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I am working on developing a corporate finance application from scratch. At my company’s request, I’m doing most of the work with Cursor. I’m generally satisfied with my current workflow, but I’m not sure what I could improve. Here is the setup:

- I have a Cursor Pro plan, and “demand usage” is disabled.

- In Cursor, I have both general rules and project-specific rules.

- I added Context7 as an MCP.

When I want to implement a feature/change:

- I use Gemini (pro/web) to help me craft the prompt.

- I give the prompt to Opus in Plan Mode.

- I do a quick sanity-check of the plan.

- I run it in Auto mode (to save tokens).

This works most of the time, but I’m sure there are areas to improve. For example, even with a plan, Auto mode still fills in some gaps on its own, and the results aren’t always great. Having the entire plan executed by a more expensive model is also not cheap.

How can I increase productivity further? How can I reduce token usage while still controlling which model is used during plan execution? What else would be worth improving?

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-to-improve-optimize-my-current-workflow-any-suggestion/150535/3 "2026-05-02T14:35:41Z")

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