How AI Agents Like In Cursor Create and Follow To-Do Lists: From Zero to Production
This tutorial explains how modern AI agents (like those in Cursor, IDE copilots, and autonomous coding tools) create, maintain, and execute to-do lists — and how you can build the same capability from scratch to production. This is not a UX trick. A to-do list is the core cognitive control structure that turns a language model from a chatty assistant into an agent that finishes work. 1. Why To-Do Lists Matter for Agents Large Language Models (LLMs) do not naturally: ...