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Awesome Cursor Rules
CC0-1.0Hundreds of real .cursorrules files by framework and language — a corpus for comparing agent-instruction styles.
Summary
Cursor Project Rules enhance Cursor AI editor behavior with project-specific guidance and reusable coding standards. Cursor AI is an AI-powered code editor. Cursor Project Rules are Markdown-based .mdc files that live in .cursor/rules/ and tell Cursor how to behave for specific projects, file types, frameworks, and workflows.
- Formats
cursorrules- License
- CC0-1.0
- Added
- 2026-09-10
Get it
From the project’s own instructions where it documents any; otherwise a plain clone.
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$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules
Shallow clone: history isn’t needed for testing.
Contents
295 files 2.9 MB repository
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.mdc257 -
.mjs19 -
.png5 -
.yml5 -
.md4 -
(no ext)3 -
.json1 -
.yaml1
Use it with
Commands are curated, not yet run by us.
Cursor — Drop one rules file into the root of your project, where Cursor reads it.
$ cp sample.cursorrules ./.cursorrules