AI Coding Setup: Project Boundaries in Cursor and Claude Code

AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code are incredibly powerful, but without clear boundaries, they can quickly generate irrelevant code or lose track of your project's architecture. To get the best results, you need to feed them the right context, rules, and reference files. This text-only course teaches you how to establish professional project boundaries and structure reference files to guide AI assistants. You will learn how to write effective system instructions, manage the context window, and use files like CLAUDE.md to keep your AI aligned with your technical requirements and coding standards. What you'll learn: Understand the foundational concepts of context management and how AI coding assistants interpret project files; Configure CLAUDE.md files to define explicit project rules, tech stacks, and architectural boundaries; Create structured reference files that feed product requirements and feature specifications directly to the AI; Apply context-saving techniques to prevent the AI from hallucinating or generating out-of-scope code; Design a reliable workflow for initializing new projects with pre-defined AI instructions. The course begins with core definitions of AI context windows and project scoping before moving into hands-on text guides for structuring configuration files. You will read through real-world markdown templates and learn how to adapt them to your specific development stack. This course is designed for developers and technical project managers who are new to AI-assisted coding and want to optimize their workflow, with no prior experience with Cursor or Claude Code required. Start structuring your workspace today to unlock clean, highly relevant AI code generations.