Cursor Known Pitfalls

Common Cursor IDE pitfalls and their solutions. Organized by category: AI behavior, security, configuration, performance, and team collaboration.

AI Feature Pitfalls

Pitfall 1: Blindly Applying Composer Changes

Problem: Clicking "Apply All" without reviewing diffs. Composer can generate code with wrong imports, hallucinated APIs, or logic errors.

Solution:

1. Click each file in the Changes panel to review its diff
2. Check imports: are they real packages in your project?
3. Check function calls: do the methods actually exist?
4. Run build after applying: npm run build
5. Run tests: npm test
6. Commit BEFORE running Composer (easy rollback with git checkout .)