Using Cursor as General Assistant

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Hey everyone. I wanted to use my cursor as a general assistant. Kinda like ChatGPT. It would be great to just buy one subscription and then use it for also non-coding chats and tasks. I have created a project specifically for this in my system where i open and use the chat for different general non-coding chats. The problem i have right now is:
-I can’t sync this project on my different systems. even if i create a repo for it and commit on each system, i also want the project to have chat history and know the chats i had on my other system
-I also want to use it on my phone, but the current pwa app is just for agents.

wanted to propose this idea and know what you think. Thanks and happy new year!

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Hey, thanks for the suggestion, and happy holidays.

I get what you’re asking for. Right now, Cursor is built mainly as a development IDE, so:

  1. Chat history is stored locally on each device and doesn’t sync across machines. A similar request is here: Cloud Sync for Chat History

  2. Mobile access: the PWA at cursor.com/agents works only for Cloud Agents, agents that run in the cloud against repos. Mobile access for regular chats isn’t available yet. A similar feature request is here: Cursor mobile app as an extension of Cursor desktop

You can subscribe to those topics to get updates. The team uses requests like this when planning product work.

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Thanks very much Dean, it would be great to have these features. right now you got to subscribe and pay to both Cursor and something like ChatGPT/Claude, but if there’s a solution to this, i would prefer to do all my things on Cursor.

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I use it heavily for non-coding tasks, it’s great for that too.

Don’t need sync between phone/computers though

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Create a folder called memory/ and write rules that describe the concept, format, and rules for maintaining markdown notes. Let the agent (semi)automatically save the essence of your conversations.

Synchronization between two devices can be done via Recillo Sync or a Git client, and you can open the notes on your smartphone using Obsidian.

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I wondered about this for making an AI Business Coach or similar. However, I assume the system prompts / model harnesses are heavily skewed towards coding tasks.

I found the ‘projects’ in ChatGPT to be excellent for my needs, only downside is the referenced files can’t be updated without re-uploading. Feels a bit like the old FTP days!

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I would venture to suggest that Cursor’s system prompt is quite neutral. Furthermore, I even managed to override my User Rules with Project Rules (although the User Rules still influence the dialogue through context).

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systemprompt.io lets you use MCP servers from your phone.
aurafriday.com offers a pile of mcp tools that work with this
two of those tools can use the Cursor IDE, and the cursor-agent tool.
those combined is all you need for the agent to do everything you could ever do on your PC, even when you’re not there, even just by talking to it all…

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i would not use it as a genral ai but i would love to use it in andriod (on phone and tablet)

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Good point. I’ve used Cursor a few times to create a simple plan for reorganizing the structure of my folders and documents on my local disk—moving files into new directories, renaming things, etc.—and it worked perfectly.

I’m wondering whether it would be possible to use Plan mode plus multiple agents/sub-agents to, for example, write a book. Let’s say (simplified example):

  • Agent 1 creates an outline,
  • Agent 2 reviews the outline,
  • Agent 3 starts writing Chapter 1,
  • Agent 4 reviews the chapter,
  • and so on.

This is just a quick, rough sketch.

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I proposed something like that here - Cursor Web Agent without repository