alt Hacker NewsHere’s how I would do this task with cursor, especially if there are more routes.
I would open a chat and refactor the template together with cursor: I would tell it what I want and if I don’t like something, I would help it to understand what I like and why. Do this for one route and when you are ready, ask cursor to write a rules file based on the current chat that includes the examples that you wanted to change and some rationale as to why you wanted it that way.
Then in the next route, you can basically just say refactor and that’s it. Whenever you find something that you don’t like, tell it and remind cursor to also update the rules file.
Solid approach. Don’t be shy about writing long prompts. We call that context engineering. The more you populate that context window with applicable knowledge and what exactly you want, the better the results. Also, having the model code and you talk to the model is helpful because it has the side effect of context engineering. In other words you’re building up relevant context with that conversation history. And be acutely aware of how much context window you’ve used and how much is remaining and when a compaction will happen. Clear context as early as you can per run. Even if it’s 90% remaining.