Software & DevOps

Write cleanup scripts from a ticket description

A developer pasted a ticket with examples into Cursor, running Claude, and got working bash scripts that cleaned up stale cloud resources. It saved hours.

Caution. Always dry-run deletion scripts.

Steps

  1. Paste in the ticket.
  2. Generate the scripts.
  3. Do a dry run first.

Prompt you can copy

Here's the ticket: [paste]. Write scripts that list and safely delete stale [resources], with a dry-run mode.

Tools

  • Cursor
  • Claude

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Source

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