Mike Coutermarsh | January 7, 2026Ever since Cursor commands were released, we've been using them to find ways to shortcut common tasks at PlanetScale.A Cursor command allows you to add slash (/actions) commands directly into Cursor. Each command guides the LLM on completing a common and repeatable workflow for you.Updating our changelogEach time we ship a feature or improvement at PlanetScale, we release an update on our changelog. Each changelog entry is a markdown file in a single directory checked into a Git repository.Whenever someone wants to write a new entry, they add a markdown file, open a GitHub pull request and merge it. Shortly after, it gets published on our website and sent out on the changelog RSS feed.Example changelog:---

title: 'Webhook API endpoints'

createdAt: '2025-04-25'

We've just added new...

Each changelog follows a similar format and almost always ships after we have already written the docs for the feature.This makes it a perfect use case for Cursor to generate. The format is specific and the context about the feature is already in our documentation repo. Cursor has everything it needs to publish for us.Iterating to perfectionWe found the easiest way to make a rule is to have Cursor create the initial version itself based on a task we just had it complete.For example, if I recently used Cursor to update our API docs, I'd finish up the conversation by having it make it repeatable with a command in the future.Please create a new Cursor command for the process we just went through, so that it is easy to replicate in the future for others. Call it /updateapi.This gives you a good starting point. From there, each time you run it, you can update the command if the results aren't satisfactory. We've found it only takes a couple tweaks to get the workflow into a place that we can rely on it.Launching from SlackAnother benefit of using commands is that they can be kicked off from the Slack bot.This resulted in Cursor automatically opening the pull request on my behalf. All I needed to do was review and merge it.Our changelog commandHere's an example of what our changelog command looks like.## Create a changelog