Plan your features before Cursor writes code
Flowmaps helps you plan features for Cursor, so its agent works on one clear task at a time inside your project.
What is Cursor?
Cursor is a code editor with AI built in. Its agent can read your project and write code for you, on your own computer.
Why plan before you build with Cursor
Cursor's agent works best with a focused task. "Add payments" is a big, fuzzy request; "let owners pay when they book, and mark the booking as paid" is something it can do well.
Flowmaps breaks your app into those focused tasks, puts them in order, and writes each one so Cursor knows which parts of the project to look at first.
How Flowmaps works with Cursor
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Describe your idea in Flowmaps
Flowmaps maps the features and suggests what to build first.
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Move a feature to Ready
That's the next task for Cursor.
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Choose Cursor as your builder
Flowmaps writes the instructions split into database, backend and frontend, and asks Cursor to keep changes small and easy to review.
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Paste into Cursor's agent
Review what it changed, try the feature, then mark it done. With GitHub connected, the card even moves by itself.
See a finished plan: example map for a booking app. How build prompts work: build prompts in the docs.
Tips for building with Cursor as a beginner
- Give Cursor one feature at a time and review the changes before the next.
- Keep your project's rules (tech stack, style) in Flowmaps Skills, so every step includes them.
- Work on a separate copy of your project (a branch) for each feature, so main stays safe.
- Ask Cursor to explain what it changed if anything is unclear.
Questions about planning a Cursor app
Does Flowmaps replace Cursor?
No. Flowmaps makes the plan and Cursor does the building. You use both: Flowmaps decides what to build and in which order, and Cursor turns each step into a working feature.
Do I need to know how to code to plan a Cursor app with Flowmaps?
No. You describe your idea in your own words, and Flowmaps writes the plan in plain language. You copy each step into your builder when you're ready for it.
Is Flowmaps free?
Yes, Flowmaps is free to start. The Free plan covers one app idea; paid plans add unlimited apps and teams. AI usage runs on your own Anthropic key, without a markup.