Cursor rules examples

The rules real projects give Cursor's agent, from .cursor/rules.

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DietrichGebertCursor rule

ponytail / rules

DietrichGebert/ponytail/.cursor/rules/ponytail.mdc

Ponytail, lazy senior dev mode. Always pick the simplest solution that works.

143k4mo agoDiscuss

colbymchenryCursor rule

codegraph / rules

colbymchenry/codegraph/.cursor/rules/codegraph.mdc

CodeGraph MCP usage guide — one tool, codegraph_explore

72k57d agoDiscuss

calesthioCursor rule

OpenMontage / rules

calesthio/OpenMontage/.cursor/rules/openmontage.mdc

OpenMontage project rules

59k43d agoDiscuss

wshobsonCursor rule

agents / rules

wshobson/agents/.cursor/rules/000-project-conventions.mdc

claude-agents marketplace project conventions

40k4d agoDiscuss

wshobsonCursor rule

agents / rules

wshobson/agents/.cursor/rules/010-python-tooling.mdc

Python tooling and dependency conventions for plugin-eval and tools/

40k4d agoDiscuss

wshobsonCursor rule

agents / rules

wshobson/agents/.cursor/rules/020-agent-skill-authoring.mdc

Authoring agent, skill, and command markdown for cross-harness portability

40k4d agoDiscuss

PostHogCursor rule

posthog / rules

PostHog/posthog/.cursor/rules/django-python.mdc

Rules for writing Python services at PostHog (Python servers powered by the Django framework)

40k5d agoDiscuss

PostHogCursor rule

posthog / rules

PostHog/posthog/.cursor/rules/react-typescript.mdc

Rules for writing frontend code at PostHog (mostly React + Typescript with Kea)

40k5d agoDiscuss

PostHogCursor rule

posthog / rules

PostHog/posthog/.cursor/rules/rust.mdc

Rules for writing Rust services at PostHog. Focuses on writing async Rust with Tokio and encoding general Rust best practices from the Rust book and docs.

40k5d agoDiscuss

yamadashyCursor rule

repomix / rules

yamadashy/repomix/.cursor/rules/base.mdc

../../.agents/rules/base.md

29k44d agoDiscuss

flipped-auroraCursor rule

gin-vue-admin / rules

flipped-aurora/gin-vue-admin/.cursor/rules/project_rules.md

本文件只用于兼容 Cursor 现有的自动加载路径。

25k5mo agoDiscuss

activepiecesCursor rule

activepieces / rules

activepieces/activepieces/.cursor/rules/mintlify

../../.agents/rules/mintlify.md

25k4mo agoDiscuss

VercelCursor rule

chatbot / rules

vercel/chatbot/.cursor/rules/ultracite.mdc

Ultracite Rules - AI-Ready Formatter and Linter

21k12mo agoDiscuss

MicrosoftCursor rule

data-formulator / rules

microsoft/data-formulator/.cursor/rules/backend-test-conventions.mdc

Backend Python test conventions (pytest)

17k5mo agoDiscuss

MicrosoftCursor rule

data-formulator / rules

microsoft/data-formulator/.cursor/rules/dataframe-serialization.mdc

All DataFrame-to-records conversion for API responses, streaming events, or frontend-visible data MUST use the centralized helpers in dataformulator.datalake.parquetutils: pandas.DataFrame.tojson(orient='records') defaults to dateformat='epoch', which serializes datetime columns as epoch milliseconds (e.g. 1773532800000). The frontend interprets these as plain numbers and renders them with commas (1,773,532,800,000) instead of formatted dates. dftosaferecords enforces dateformat='iso' and default_handler=str, ensuring datetimes become ISO-8601 strings and exotic types degrade gracefully. Internal data processing that never reaches the frontend or JSON serialization (e.g. Kusto SDK metadata parsing, Vega-Lite…

17k5mo agoDiscuss

MicrosoftCursor rule