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Agentic IDEs (Claude Code, Cursor)

Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Windsurf — prompt patterns behind agentic coding workflows.

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Claude Code (Anthropic), Cursor, Aider, Windsurf, Codex — all LLM + tool use + git + filesystem. Shared patterns:

  1. Plan first — break big tasks into a todo list
  2. Read context selectively — open only needed files, ignore the rest
  3. Diff-based editing — change patches, not full-file rewrites
  4. Verify with tools — run tests, see type errors, feed back
  5. Self-review — summarize changes, ask user for approval

Learning these is gold for building your own agent.

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