The design is scattered.
Requirements, diagrams, tickets, and decisions live outside the immediate editor context.
Solutions
Memory for Cursor
Cursor helps you work quickly inside the codebase. Windy gives Cursor workflows the project memory they need first: specs, architecture, diagrams, decisions, plans, tasks, and execution history that keep AI-assisted edits aligned with the design.Built for agent-native workflows · Works with MCP-aware coding agents and AI coding tools.
Cursor is close to the code. Windy is close to the design.
Cursor can help you understand, edit, and generate code inside the editor. But the codebase alone rarely contains the full project intent: product requirements, architecture decisions, diagrams, plans, rollout notes, and what happened in previous agent runs. Windy keeps that memory in one project-scoped source of truth.
Windy does not replace Cursor. It gives Cursor workflows the design memory and execution memory they should build from.
The problem
Editor context is useful, but it is not the whole project memory.
Cursor works inside the development environment, where it can use files, prompts, and editor context. That is powerful. But many of the things that make code maintainable live outside the current file selection: the reason for an API shape, the intended architecture, a migration plan, a product constraint, or a decision made in a previous session.
Important intent is implicit.
Cursor may see the code but not the reason the code is shaped that way.
Large tasks lose structure.
Refactors and migrations need ordered tasks, not only a prompt in the editor.
Previous runs disappear.
What happened in an earlier agent session may not become durable project memory.
Docs and code drift.
If the design is not updated after implementation, the next edit starts from stale context.
Cursor becomes more reliable when the project memory is explicit, current, and available before code changes.
Project memory
Keep the context behind the code in one place.
Windy stores the artifacts that explain what the system should be, not only what files currently exist. That memory can guide planning, editor work, review, and future agent sessions.
- Requirements and specs — product behavior, edge cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Architecture notes — components, boundaries, dependencies, ownership, and constraints.
- Diagrams — system maps, data flows, state machines, ER diagrams, and cloud architecture.
- Contracts and schemas — APIs, events, database models, payloads, JSON, YAML, and interface definitions.
- Decision records — tradeoffs, rejected options, and the reasons behind current design choices.
- Plans and tasks — ordered work with objectives, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and implementation prompts.
- Execution history — what ran, what changed, what passed, and what still needs review.
The best AI-assisted editor workflow starts with project intent, not only open files.
Workflow
Design first. Then edit with the design in view.
Windy turns Cursor usage into a more durable design-first workflow: define the intent, plan the change, edit the code, review the result, and keep the memory current.
01
Capture the design in Windy.
Store requirements, architecture notes, diagrams, contracts, constraints, and decisions.
02
Plan the change.
Break larger work into tasks with objectives, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and implementation prompts.
03
Use the memory during implementation.
Bring the relevant Windy docs and task context into the Cursor workflow before changing code.
04
Review against the source of truth.
Check whether the implementation matches the spec, architecture, and acceptance criteria.
05
Update the memory.
When behavior changes, keep docs, plans, and execution history aligned with the code.
The next Cursor session starts from the current design, not from a reconstruction of the last prompt.
Plans
Turn broad requirements into focused editor tasks.
Cursor is most useful when the work is well-scoped. Windy Plans help convert a broad requirement into ordered tasks with clear acceptance criteria, so each editor session has a specific goal and review target.
- Objective — what this task should accomplish.
- Relevant context — specs, architecture notes, diagrams, files, and constraints to use.
- Deliverables — code, tests, docs, migrations, or UI changes expected.
- Dependencies — what must happen before this task.
- Acceptance criteria — how the result will be reviewed.
- Implementation prompt — a focused instruction for the coding session.
- Execution notes — what happened and what remains.
Plans make Cursor-assisted work easier to pause, resume, and review.
What this looks like in practice.
You want to refactor onboarding from a single hard-coded flow into a role-aware setup flow for admins, developers, and billing owners.
Without Windy
You prompt Cursor from inside the editor, select a few files, and try to explain roles, organization state, billing setup, invitation behavior, UI flows, and migration concerns in the prompt.
With Windy
- The onboarding spec defines roles, states, and success criteria.
- The architecture note explains where organization setup state should live.
- The diagrams show the onboarding flow and state transitions.
- The plan breaks the refactor into routing, state model, UI, tests, and docs tasks.
- The relevant docs and task context guide the Cursor editing session.
- Execution notes record what changed and what still needs review.
- Docs and plans are updated as the implementation evolves.
Cursor remains the place you edit. Windy becomes the memory that keeps the edit aligned with the project.
Setup
Start with one project and one source of truth.
The simplest way to use Windy with Cursor is to create a Windy project for the codebase, add the design context the agent should respect, and use Windy as the source of truth when planning and reviewing Cursor-assisted changes.
01
Create or open a Windy project.
Add the requirements, architecture notes, diagrams, and decisions that explain the system.
02
Create a plan for active work.
Break larger changes into ordered tasks with acceptance criteria.
03
Use Windy context in Cursor.
Bring the relevant specs, diagrams, and task instructions into the Cursor workflow before editing.
04
Update Windy after implementation.
Keep the project memory aligned when behavior changes.
Suggested project instruction
Before making AI-assisted edits in Cursor, use the relevant Windy Docs and
current Windy Plan as the source of truth for architecture, constraints,
acceptance criteria, and task order. After implementation, update Windy docs or
execution notes if behavior changed.Teams
Keep the memory with the project, not only the editor.
Editor-local context is valuable during implementation, but the memory of the project should survive across sessions, teammates, branches, and agents. Windy keeps specs, decisions, diagrams, plans, and execution history in one shared place, so the next developer or agent can continue from the current truth.
- Shared source of truth — humans and agents use the same project memory.
- Reviewable docs and plans — the design is visible, not hidden in a local session.
- Reusable context — the same memory can support Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and future MCP-aware agents.
- Execution history — previous agent work leaves a durable record.
- Human control — developers remain the architects and reviewers.
Cursor helps you move quickly in the code. Windy helps the project remember why the code should move that way.
Best-fit use cases
When Windy helps most with Cursor.
Feature work with hidden product rules
onboarding, billing, permissions, notifications, and integrations.
Architecture-sensitive edits
service boundaries, API contracts, state machines, data models, and event flows.
Large refactors
migrations that need sequencing, acceptance criteria, and progress tracking.
Design-heavy UI work
flows where screens, states, and edge cases need to stay coherent.
Team workflows
when multiple developers or agents need the same source of truth.
Long-running projects
when future sessions need to understand why the current code exists.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
No. Cursor is where you work in the code. Windy is the project memory layer that keeps specs, architecture, plans, decisions, and execution history available outside one editor session.
Cursor can use editor and codebase context, but the full project intent often lives in specs, diagrams, plans, decisions, and previous runs. Windy keeps that context durable and reviewable.
Yes. Repository docs are useful, but Windy also holds diagrams, plans, tasks, acceptance criteria, and execution history as a project-scoped source of truth for humans and agents.
Yes. Windy is designed as shared project memory for agent-native workflows, so the same source of truth can support multiple coding tools.
Start with the active requirement, architecture notes, diagrams, constraints, acceptance criteria, and a plan for the change you want to implement.
Windy makes docs and plans part of the implementation loop. After code changes, humans or agents update the related source-of-truth artifacts and execution notes.
Related
Keep exploring.
Cursor helps you move quickly in the code. Windy helps the project remember why.
Create a project, add the design context, and let Cursor workflows build from your source of truth instead of a reconstruction.
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