The rules real projects give Cursor's agent, from .cursor/rules.
kensaurusCursor rulekensaurus/cursor-kenji/.cursor/rules/verification-before-completion.mdc
Require fresh, scope-appropriate evidence before any completion claim. Distinguishes implemented, locally verified, repository-green, PR-green, deployed, and observed-stable states.
afaraha8403Cursor ruleafaraha8403/balakit/.cursor/rules/release.mdc
Git tag, CHANGELOG heading, package.json, and npm publish must share one semver. Use when releasing, shipping, deploying, tagging, or publishing npm.
nachum10Cursor rulenachum10/cloudflare-tunnel-routes/.cursor/rules/cloudflare-tunnel-routes.mdc
Persistent HTTPS URL for local Gradio/Streamlit/FastAPI/webhook services without deploying. Use when the user wants a stable permanent URL on a domain they own (not a throwaway URL, not managed hosting).
SafetyMPCursor ruleSafetyMP/HR-ERP/.cursor/rules/vercel-jwt-smoke.mdc
When the user asks for a dev JWT, Bearer token, or to test / hit the linked Vercel deployment API with auth — run the smoke command and report status (not the token)
0xdfinityCursor rule0xdfinity/fhevm-agent-skill/.cursor/rules/fhevm-agent-skill.mdc
Zama FHEVM skills. Use for confidential Solidity contracts, encrypted frontend flows, tests, deployments, ERC-7984, input proofs, ACL, and decryption.
kadam-officialCursor rulekadam-official/mcp-server/.cursor/rules/release-gate.mdc
Release & deploy gate for @kadam-net/mcp-server — what the agent may do autonomously vs. what requires explicit human approval. Applies to all branch/MR/release/deploy work in this repo.
malawaddCursor rulemalawadd/zama-fhevm-confidential-contracts/.cursor/rules/zama-fhevm-confidential-contracts.mdc
Build, test, deploy, and integrate confidential smart contracts on Zama Protocol FHEVM, including encrypted inputs, ACL, decryption, OpenZeppelin confidential contracts, and ERC-7984.
KangaKodeCursor ruleKangaKode/universal-agent-bootstrap/.cursor/rules/expert-review.mdc
Full expert review protocol. 8-expert, 2-wave deliberation for comprehensive codebase and documentation review. Invoke before major milestones, after shipping feature clusters, or before staging/production deployment.
KangaKodeCursor ruleKangaKode/universal-agent-workflow-template/.cursor/rules/expert-review.mdc
Full expert review protocol. 8-expert, 2-wave deliberation for comprehensive codebase and documentation review. Invoke before major milestones, after shipping feature clusters, or before staging/production deployment.
mchittineniCursor rulemchittineni/cloud-platform-skills/.cursor/rules/skills/helm-kubernetes-deployment.mdc
Helm chart engineering: chart/subchart layout, values schema validation, hardened Deployment templates (probes, resources, securityContext, PDB), and release lifecycle with rollback. Use when authoring or reviewing a Helm chart, templating Kubernetes manifests, or debugging a failed or stuck Helm release.
mchittineniCursor rulemchittineni/cloud-platform-skills/.cursor/rules/skills/devops-metrics-dora-kpis.mdc
DORA metrics instrumentation: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore, with PromQL dashboards, benchmark bands, and anti-gaming guidance. Use when measuring delivery performance, building an engineering-metrics dashboard, or diagnosing why throughput or stability is poor.
MANVENDRA-githubCursor ruleMANVENDRA-github/agentry/.cursor/rules/feature-flags.mdc
Decouple deploy from release with feature flags — ship code dark, turn it on deliberately, and delete the flag once it has served its purpose. Invoke when rolling out a risky or incomplete change, running an experiment, or gating access. Skip for a small change with no rollout risk, where a flag is just indirection.
mchittineniCursor rulemchittineni/cloud-platform-skills/.cursor/rules/skills/gcp-cloud-engineering-patterns.mdc
GCP platform engineering: organization, folder and project hierarchy, Organization Policy constraints, Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, IAM Workload Identity Federation, and BigQuery operations. Use when designing a Google Cloud resource hierarchy or network, letting GitHub Actions or another external CI deploy to GCP without a service account key, or building a data perimeter.
mchittineniCursor rulemchittineni/cloud-platform-skills/.cursor/rules/skills/database-devops-lifecycle.mdc
Database DevOps: expand/contract zero-downtime schema migration, migration-as-code with Flyway, Liquibase and Atlas, connection pooling, replication lag, and rollback strategy. Use when adding, renaming or dropping a column on a large Postgres or MySQL table without downtime, running migrations from a deploy pipeline, or diagnosing read replicas lagging behind the primary and serving stale data.
mchittineniCursor rulemchittineni/cloud-platform-skills/.cursor/rules/skills/cicd-pipeline-design.mdc
CI/CD pipeline architecture for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI: matrix testing, dependency caching, OIDC keyless cloud authentication, security gating, and concurrency control. Use when a pipeline is slow because every job reinstalls dependencies, when long-lived AWS or cloud access keys stored as CI secrets must be removed, or when building, gating and speeding up a build-test-deploy workflow.
joinwell52-AICursor rulejoinwell52-AI/FCoP/.cursor/rules/fcop-rules.mdc
FCoP Rules (behavior governance protocol layer · v3 — agent runtime contract for _lifecycle/-based collaboration) — the protocol rules every agent must follow inside an FCoP project. Auto-deployed by the fcop MCP. Companion file fcop-protocol.mdc explains how each rule applies in practice. FCoP 协议规则（行为治理协议层 · v3 —— agent 在 _lifecycle/ 目录结构上协作的运行时契约）：任何在 FCoP 项目中工作的 Agent 都必须遵守的规则，由 fcop MCP 自动部署；规则的具体适用说明见同目录的 fcop-protocol.mdc。
0xmythrilCursor rule0xmythril/clawdtm/.cursor/rules/vercel-next-build.mdc
Avoid Vercel/Next.js build failures. Apply when editing code that affects npm run build or deployment.
MicrosoftCursor rulemicrosoft/data-formulator/.cursor/rules/path-safety.mdc
路径安全编码规范 — 编辑路由/Agent/Loader/Workspace/知识库代码时自动提醒
airweave-aiCursor ruleairweave-ai/airweave/.cursor/rules/airweave-overview.mdc
General overview of Airweave.
airweave-aiCursor ruleairweave-ai/airweave/.cursor/rules/search-module.mdc
answer if generate_answer=True ``` ### Advanced Search with Options ```python request = SearchRequest( query="deployment failures last week", retrieval_strategy=RetrievalStrategy.HYBRID, temporal_relevance=0.7, # Strong recency bias expand_query=True, interpret
Instruction files for Cursor's agent, kept in .cursor/rules/ as .mdc files.
A rule can apply only to files matching a pattern, or only when the agent asks for it. AGENTS.md always applies.
Copy the .mdc file into your project's .cursor/rules/ directory and adjust its globs.
Open a rule to see its discussion. Reports from people and their agents are coming.
