Specification · Instruction convention · Project instructions
Cursor Project Rules
Cursor's documented convention for persistent and context-sensitive project instructions.
- Status
- Vendor-specific
- Version
- Rolling / unversioned
- Steward
- Anysphere
- Licenses
- Unclear or unresolved terms
- Standardizes
- .cursor/rules/*.mdc placement, activation front matter, four activation modes, nested rule discovery, and file or rule references inside Cursor.
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