Quick reference: recover from common Cursor failure modes

A run is touching unrelated files. What is the first recovery move? Tighten the active scope with narrower @-context and an explicit do-not-change boundary. Scope drift is usually a framing problem before it is a model problem. “Let’s just merge the useful parts and ignore the rest.” A teammate wants to salvage a sprawling diff without reframing the task. Keep any clearly proven artifact, but rerun the task with a sharper frame instead of normalizing the drift. Your reply Mixed-intent diffs preserve the original failure mode and hide it inside review work. It separates useful signal from the bad frame…

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