Cursor for Developers: Essentials — Code Review Playbook

A focused playbook for reviewing code with Cursor, including changes written by an AI agent. Learners review a small JavaScript pull request in Agent's Ask mode for correctness, security, risky edits and missing tests, insist on line-referenced findings, and then check a first-pass AI review comment by comment instead of trusting it. They leave with a reusable review prompt and a clear approve, request-changes or reject decision. About 45 minutes including the final.

What this course covers

The course runs across 3 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Line-referenced review of a diff in Ask mode — Learners open a diff in Cursor, @-mention it in Agent's Ask mode and ask for findings grouped by correctness, security, risky edits and missing tests, each with the file, line, impact and an input that proves it. On a branch, /agent-review runs Agent Review (Quick or Deep), and the Source Control tab version compares all local changes against your main branch.
Agent-written pull requests: scope creep, deleted tests and confident descriptions — AI-written changes often 'simplify' code they were not asked to touch, drop checks or tests, and claim that all tests pass. Learners compare the PR description and ticket rules with what the diff really does and ask for a reproducing input for each risky line.
Check the reviewer: accept, reject or verify each AI comment — Given a first-pass AI review, learners decide comment by comment whether it is correct, wrong or unproven, checking each against the code before acting. Bugbot can review pull requests automatically if your plan includes it, and its comments get the same checking.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

Software developers. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 45 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: AI Code Editors track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including code lab, branching scenario exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

Cursor for Developers: Essentials — Testing Playbook — A focused playbook for testing with Cursor. Learners use Agent in Ask mode to find the untested rules in a small Python billing module and write unit and edge-case tests, sort out a failing test and a flaky one, and prove a test really guards the behaviour by checking whether it would catch a bug. They leave with a repeatable test-writing routine and the habit of taking expected values from the spec, not from the code. About 45 minutes including the final.
Cursor for Developers: Essentials — Docs & Onboarding Playbook — A focused playbook for documentation and onboarding with Cursor. Learners use Agent's Ask mode to explain an unfamiliar JavaScript module, trace real inputs through it, fact-check an out-of-date README line by line, and write a new README, JSDoc comments and a handoff note. They leave with documentation in which every claim has been checked against the code. About 45 minutes including the final.
Cursor for Everyone: Essentials — Learners build their first real tools with Cursor without writing code themselves. The course covers guided setup, the describe-build-check loop, and making small useful things - a small web page, a calculator, a form - with fake data until the result is trusted. They leave with one working tool and the habit of asking Cursor to explain everything it did.
Cursor for Everyone: Intro — A first look at Cursor for people who don't code. Learners ask it in plain English to build a small pizza calculator for a team lunch, ask for one change, and see the result in their browser. It proves you don't need to be an engineer to build with AI. About 30 minutes including the final.
Cursor for Developers: Essentials — Getting Productive in Cursor — The developer starting point for Cursor: set up from VS Code with Privacy Mode on, use Tab for multi-line and cross-file edits, and work with the Agent in its Agent, Ask, Plan and Debug modes. Learners control context with @-mentions and .cursorignore, choose between Auto and specific models, and review diffs and checkpoints before trusting a change. Ends with a first agent task on a small repo, reviewed and tested.
Cursor & Grok Bot for Developers Pathway — One path for engineering teams that use Cursor with Grok Bot included. A placement check for each tool sends you to the right Cursor course and the right Grok Bot course. Also includes 8 optional playbooks (Testing, Code Review, Refactoring & Migration and Docs & Onboarding for Cursor; Testing, Code Review, Incidents & Performance and Docs & Onboarding for Grok Bot) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.
Cursor for Developers Pathway — Cursor for professional developers: from getting productive with Tab and Agent to rules, MCP and hooks, then cloud agents, Bugbot and the CLI. Also includes 4 optional playbooks (Testing, Code Review, Refactoring & Migration, Docs & Onboarding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 45 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-CUR-DEV-122.