.cursorignore

Like .gitignore, but for the model. Files listed here are kept out of the index and out of prompts — secrets, vendored code, giant generated files.

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Where it comes up

Cursor Admin Guide

Mar 31, 2026first said at 3:061 mention

“recommend taking a look at this because it can be a really helpful way to, again, customize Cursor's agent loop and execution uh as you as you roll it out. There's a special .cursorignore file that you can use to specify different files tha…”