Before we build
Cursor Rollouts & Developers questions
Practical answers about scope, delivery, ownership, and working with ManasFlow.
Do you offer Cursor development services in Los Angeles or elsewhere in California?+
Yes, remotely. Rollouts run over video calls and in your repository, and placed engineers join your team as remote members.
Can you set up project rules and .cursorrules for our codebase?+
Yes. We author rules files that encode your stack, conventions, and constraints so Cursor follows your patterns by default. This is usually the single biggest jump in output quality for a team.
Can you build MCP servers that work inside Cursor?+
Yes. We build and connect MCP servers so Cursor can read your docs, database schema, issue tracker, and internal tools, turning generic completions into context-aware engineering grounded in your system.
How do you stop Cursor Agent from making bad edits?+
We scope the Agent and Composer with rules, clear context, and review practices so changes stay constrained to the right files and follow your conventions, instead of confident rewrites you have to undo.
Can you roll Cursor out across our whole team?+
Yes. We codify standards, build shared rules and MCP integrations, and run enablement so every engineer gets consistent results instead of only the one power user who prompts well.
Do you support the team after rollout?+
Yes. We keep rules current as your codebase evolves, update MCP integrations, and enable new engineers so Cursor stays a reliable part of how your team ships.
Why does one engineer cover what feels like a team's work?+
Because the standards, rules, and MCP servers are built once as a repeatable fleet, not re-explained per engineer. One senior engineer maintains the system that the whole team draws on.
What is Cursor good at, and where does it struggle?+
Cursor is strong at multi-file edits, refactors and scaffolding inside an existing repo, because Agent and Composer read the files you point them at. It struggles when context is missing: no rules file, no schema, no docs. Then it writes code that compiles but ignores your conventions. Most rollout work closes that gap.
What does a Cursor rollout include?+
A rollout covers four things: project rules that encode your stack and conventions, MCP servers that connect Cursor to your docs, schema and tickets, scoped Agent and Composer workflows for repeat tasks, and enablement so every engineer works from the same setup. Everything lives in your repo, so it survives staff changes.
Can I hire a Cursor developer full-time instead of an agency?+
Yes. Through Engineer Placement we place an engineer from our own bench on your team in 2 to 4 weeks, from $60,000 a year, with a 90-day replacement guarantee and no recruitment fee. Choose placement when you have ongoing work. Choose a rollout when you need the setup built once.
How is this different from hiring a freelancer or doing it in-house?+
A freelancer usually tunes one person's setup. An in-house hire needs weeks of recruiting before any work starts. We build the shared rules, MCP servers and review practices once, in your repo, for the whole team, then hand them over or keep maintaining them.
When should we not use Cursor Agent for a task?+
Skip it for changes you cannot review: large migrations without tests, security-critical auth code with no second reviewer, or a repo Cursor cannot index. In those cases we add tests and guardrails first, or keep the task manual. More AI edits on untested code only add review load.
Which tools do you use alongside Cursor?+
Cursor for editing, MCP servers for context, your existing CI for checks, and Claude Code or Codex when a task suits a terminal or CI agent better than the editor. We pick per task and document the choice in your repo, so the team knows which tool to reach for.