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Tooling May 15, 2026 2 min
You have 3 tools. Are you using them correctly?
Cursor drafts. Claude ships. Copilot reviews. One job each — no overlap.
Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot each cover a different layer of the coding workflow — speed, depth, and quality. A 4-slide breakdown of who does what, when to hand off, and the one config file each tool needs so the boundaries hold under real production pressure.
Tags#Cursor#ClaudeCode#Copilot#AICodingTools#DeveloperWorkflow#DevTools
Key takeaways
- 1Three tools, three layers: Cursor = speed (drafting), Copilot = quality (PR review), Claude Code = depth (production reasoning).
- 2Respect the boundary. Cursor stops where prod begins. Copilot stops where deep reasoning begins. Claude stops where the task gets simple.
- 3The handoff is the workflow: Cursor scaffolds → Claude writes prod code → Copilot reviews the PR → merge.
- 4Each tool needs its own config file in the repo: .cursorrules for scope, copilot-instructions.md for review coverage, CLAUDE.md for architectural depth.
- 5Overlap breaks everything. One tool, one job — written down, not just remembered.
