How I use Cursor task-list.mdc in a real project

Handing off work—or keeping yourself aligned—gets messy fast when the “task” lives across chat threads, docs, and half-finished TODOs. This video walks through how the speaker uses a tasklist.mdc Cursor rule to define and execute real feature work in an open-source project (Inbox Zero), while staying clear-eyed about where AI helps and where it doesn’t. Key takeaways How tasklist.mdc is used to generate a structured task file (completed / in-progress / future tasks, implementation plan, relevant files). How to seed Cursor with the right context by tagging specific files and UI/email wireframes. What it looks like to iterate when the first AI output is “roughly OK” but includes mistakes—and how to correct it. How PR review tooling (CodeRabbit) fits into the workflow as an extra set of eyes.