Learn how to use Cursor Custom Rules to guide AI-assisted coding. Explore project rules,.mdc files, setup steps, practical use cases, and best practices. Editor’s Note: This article was originally written by Ajinkya Vinayak Palaskar, Software Engineer III, and published…
You wrote a.cursor/rules file. It has good rules. And the agent keeps ignoring them. Nine times out of ten this isn't the model being dumb — it's that the rule never got attached to the context in the first place.
Cursor has accumulated four different places to put project rules, and most explanations you'll find online describe a version of the app that no longer exists. I re-checked Cursor's official docs today (2026-08-11) before writing this — every claim below has a…
The project built below is called cmdkit. It ships six working commands, a Python linter that fails the build on missing sections, leaked secrets and risky instructions, a generated command index, a pre-commit hook, and a CI check. Every file…
The audience for this question is large. In the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, “Visual Studio Code was used by 75.9% of respondents, while Cursor was used by 17.9%.” Plenty of those Cursor users arrived from VS Code with a C++ project that…
In the Cursor vs. VS Code decision, Cursor is the better choice if you want an editor built around AI agents from the ground up, and VS Code if you want a free, open-source editor where you pick your own…
To deploy a website from Cursor, push your code to a GitHub repository and connect that repository to a hosting provider, which handles the build and publishing steps. Cursor itself is an AI-first code editor built on the Visual Studio…
On October 7, 2026, GitHub broke in a strange, specific way. You could read almost anything. You could not save almost anything. That is the mystery this article works through. It ends with a small guard, in Python, that you can steal…
The editor will not fix this for you. The Cursor release notes we checked on November 4, 2026 document no switch that forces small diffs, and none that guarantees an agent patches a file instead of regenerating it. Cursor rules are the…
Cursor and Tabnine used to be a genuine two-way comparison: one AI-native editor built for raw... Tagged with cursor, tabnine, ai, coding. Cursor and Tabnine used to be a genuine two-way comparison: one AI-native editor built for raw productivity, one…
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