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Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule


AI forgets things between chats. Cursor Rules fix this. Learn why you need them and a trick to make writing them easy.

These ensure your amnesiac developers can quickly regain context and maintain consistency across projects, allowing you to focus on solving new problems instead of repeating old explanations. Notice a pattern you want to codify Open the Cursor chat Point the AI to your meta-rule (e.g., "Using the cursor- rule- creation. During a long coding session: After spending hours working with the AI on a specific pattern or convention, I'll realize, "I don't want to explain this again next time."

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