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The capability × SDLC-phase one-pager
Put this idea into your own words: "Give them a grid of which capability earns its keep in which phase of the SDLC."
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The capability × SDLC-phase one-pager
Don't talk to a VP of Engineering feature-by-feature. Give them a grid of which capability earns its keep in which phase of the SDLC. That's the artifact that turns a demo into a rollout plan.
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Read this top-to-bottom as a rollout
- SDLC phase
- Understand / onboard
- Primary pattern
- Explore (read-only)
- Surface
- IDE agent + search
- Where the value lands
- Faster ramp, fewer 'where does X live' interrupts
- SDLC phase
- Design / shape
- Primary pattern
- Plan a reviewable change
- Surface
- IDE agent + 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. (Jira/Confluence)
- Where the value lands
- Catch wrong approaches before code exists
- SDLC phase
- Implement
- Primary pattern
- Constrain a refactor
- Surface
- IDE / CLI agent
- Where the value lands
- Small diffs, tests as targets, house-style by rules
- SDLC phase
- Review
- Primary pattern
- Prepare human review + BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition.
- Surface
- Cloud / CI
- Where the value lands
- Cursor's June 2026 BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. update: average review about 90 seconds. Findings support human review, they don't replace it
- SDLC phase
- Operate / maintain
- Primary pattern
- Explore + constrained fix
- Surface
- Cloud agents (parallel multi-repo)
- Where the value lands
- Bulk migrations, dependency bumps, async report-back
| SDLC phase | Primary pattern | Surface | Where the value lands |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understand / onboard | Explore (read-only) | IDE agent + search | Faster ramp, fewer 'where does X live' interrupts |
| Design / shape | Plan a reviewable change | IDE agent + 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. (Jira/Confluence) | Catch wrong approaches before code exists |
| Implement | Constrain a refactor | IDE / CLI agent | Small diffs, tests as targets, house-style by rules |
| Review | Prepare human review + BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. | Cloud / CI | Cursor's June 2026 BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. update: average review about 90 seconds. Findings support human review, they don't replace it |
| Operate / maintain | Explore + constrained fix | Cloud agents (parallel multi-repo) | Bulk migrations, dependency bumps, async report-back |
Read this top-to-bottom as a rollout: each SDLC phase gets a primary pattern and the surface that earns its keep there. A grid like this, not a feature list, is what an engineering org hears as an adoption plan.
If asked to 'roll Cursor out to a 200-person org,' draw the capability × phase grid and overlay the autonomy ladder.
Then close with governance: Project RulesVersion-controlled instructions in the repo that every Cursor agent interaction inherits, so standards are encoded once. Press Enter for the full definition. and AGENTS.md as the house style, ignore/allowlists as the blast-radius control, the ownership rule as the cultural anchor. A grid plus a ladder plus governance is what an org hears as a rollout.
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