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Cursor Rules: How to Write and Share Configs That Actually Work

Cursor rules: shareable .mdc configs that actually work

You have probably had this moment: you spend twenty minutes explaining your stack, your conventions, and your non-negotiables to Cursor’s Agent, it generates something great, and then the next day — or the next tab — you start all over again. Cursor rules are how you stop repeating yourself. They are persistent, project-level instructions that … Read more