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Portfolio and writing-sample audit
Use "Cursor expects a visible body of work and strong, evidenced opinions about developer marketing" to say what you would do next.
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Cursor expects a visible body of work and strong, evidenced opinions about developer marketing. The screen and the craft rounds both reference your portfolio, so a sharp set of artifacts does work before you say a word.
More links is not better. Three artifacts that each prove something specific beat a dozen that blur together. Curate ruthlessly toward one claim: you are a maker and a communicator with taste.
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Advanced table
Maker, communicator, taste: cover all three, ideally with overlap
- Artifact type
- A shipped tool or OSS project
- What it proves
- Maker: you build real things that run
- The bar
- Someone other than you has used it or it has stars, issues or a clean repo a stranger could run
- Artifact type
- A piece of writing or a demo that spread
- What it proves
- Communicator: you can teach and you understand distribution
- The bar
- It landed somewhere real - X, HN, a dev blog - and taught a concrete thing
- Artifact type
- A reference automation of your own work
- What it proves
- Taste plus daily power use: you abuse coding agents creatively
- The bar
- It shows a workflow a developer would steal, not a toy
| Artifact type | What it proves | The bar |
|---|---|---|
| A shipped tool or OSS project | Maker: you build real things that run | Someone other than you has used it or it has stars, issues or a clean repo a stranger could run |
| A piece of writing or a demo that spread | Communicator: you can teach and you understand distribution | It landed somewhere real - X, HN, a dev blog - and taught a concrete thing |
| A reference automation of your own work | Taste plus daily power use: you abuse coding agents creatively | It shows a workflow a developer would steal, not a toy |
Maker, communicator, taste: cover all three, ideally with overlap.
Frame every artifact for a developerOne line of why-this-matters
Each link needs a single sentence that says what a developer gets from it. Without that framing, a reviewer has to reverse-engineer your point and most won't.
- Weak
- "A CLI tool I built in TypeScript with the Cursor Agent SDKA programmatic interface for running Cursor agents from your own scripts, services or CI, locally or in the cloud. Press Enter for the full definition.."
- Strong
- "Turn any failing CI run into a labeled issue with a suggested fix, in one command - built on the Agent SDKA programmatic interface for running Cursor agents from your own scripts, services or CI, locally or in the cloud. Press Enter for the full definition.."
- Weak
- "A blog post about MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers."
- Strong
- "How to give the agent your team's private runbooks so it stops guessing - a 10-minute MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. walkthrough."