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Cursor rules are the secret to making AI actually understand your codebase. Let the AI create its own rules by extracting patterns from your docs and existing code. Then watch as it follows your project's conventions perfectly. No more explaining your standards over and over again.

Cursor's new project rules - replaces .cursorrules Better targeting with filename-based localized rules Use @ filename in .mdc for more precision @cursor_ai

You might not be aware, but Cline has a secret superpower: .clinerules It's the key to standardizing AI coding practices across your entire team. Here's what you need to know about using .clinerules

AI rules for windsurf >>> got these rules from someone on AI Twitter, can't remember who they work AMAZINGLY Key: at the bottom you'll see the AI is instructed to not make changes outside what's requested copy and paste the rules in first comment, and profit

这位推友分享了使用 Cursor 的时候添加的一个实用的 Cursor Rule，Agent 生成代码的时候让 Claude 添加一个类似 R1 的 thinking 过程（当然原理不一样），包裹在一个 thinking 的 tag 当中，从三种解决方案里面选最合适的一种，确实是一个特别棒的技巧，我亲自测试了一下，效果很不错，非常实用，可以看我的测试视频，推荐给大家。

Rather than writing commit messages manually - I now add a rule to .cursorrules that helps generate descriptive commits. Here's Cursor handling the commit message for a recent change I made to my Bluesky Recommender app. Example rule used also attached.