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Cursor rule4 starsChanged 19 days agoMITView on GitHub
Desktop users are beginners; design and copy must stay plain
We split this beginner-users.mdc into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 14
After a click, show the result where they clicked.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 6,350 Cursor rule files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
--- description: Desktop users are beginners; design and copy must stay plain alwaysApply: true --- # Beginner users Desktop users are beginners. They do not use a terminal and do not know MCP, paths, protocols, or CLI commands. This is locked in `docs/zh-CN/product-boundary.md` and `docs/product-boundary.md`. Follow it for every feature and every user-visible string. - Say the problem in one sentence with words they already have: project, tool, cannot connect, needs a key. - Button labels name the change they will see. Do not say “Fix” when the click cannot clear the problem. - After a click, show the result where they clicked. If the warning stays, say why in one plain sentence and what to tap next. - Commands, file paths, and raw English errors are never the only explanation.
Where files are headingNew Cursor rule files have more rules about planning and tracking tasks, and fewer about code style.
Of the Cursor rule files we read, the 3,978 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository3 other files it gives its agents.
- .cursor/rules/chat-experience.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/desktop-dev-frontend.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/github-release-packaging.mdcCursor rule
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