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A configuration file or set of written instructions developers provide to guide an AI coding assistant's behavior within a specific codebase.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Once they wrote proper cursor rules, the assistant stopped suggesting patterns that didn't match the codebase style."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named directly after the convention popularized by the Cursor editor for persistent, project-specific instructions to its AI assistant.
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Related To:CursorContext EngineerContext Pack
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