Cursor Rules
Standing instructions the model gets on every request in this project — conventions, stack choices, things it keeps getting wrong. Stored as files under .cursor/rules so they live in the repo and get reviewed like code.
Where it comes up
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“plan that you've used in a given kind of billing period. Uh, what's the best shape the best way to shape agent behavior? Is it agents.md cursor rules or something else? Um, all of these abstractions are just ways to get context to the agent…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“me to a point where uh those iteration loops are very short. I'm able to compress the entire PRD life cycle in SDLC. Um and building demos PC's and MVPs for clients has never been easier. >> I have question for you. Did you use any project…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“here we have a whole test on the pageionation in my app and then also a test on some edge cases, which is kind of cool. Then, it's adding some new ones in our test order. And so all of this is adhering to the the same framework that I uh or…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“being said the models are quite good now um and are only getting better. So I what I found myself is the number of times that I need to completely course correct the model has gone drastically down over time. >> And one thing I would recomm…”
Cursor 101
“cursor rules folder where we are going to use Tailwind for styling. Um in our We're going to create another rule here. Let's say in our React components please make sure to always have type definitions at the top of the file. Okay, so we'll…”
Cursor for Data Science
“Thoughts here with regards to cursor rules. Um well ro so I actually haven't used roll at all. Um I use mainly if I want to give something a persona I'll use a skill or a sub agent. Um I'll talk about that a little more here. Um I'm just tr…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“being called. So let's actually go back into our IDE and open up one of our rules file. So you can see that I have a Java import MDC. MDC is markdown. C stands for cursor. It's essentially saying that always apply is actually false. You don…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“you to set other types of rules. And I can create as many rules files as I want in this rules directory. And each one of those files can be assigned a different rule type. So always apply means that the rule is going to be attached to every…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“Example, to have the main agent act as an orchestrator of the sub agents. Would this be handled via cursor user rules? Are they applied to the main agent only or are these also added as context to every sub agent? Mhm. Yeah, I think again,…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“it sticks around for longer and actually gets committed. So highly recommend that. Highly highly recommend that. Um, >> I see a question from Chris about now that there's a lot of different humans working with a bunch of different AI agents…”