Comment on Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCPComments−bbertelsen1yOne of the big problems I have with cursor is that it ignores the rules frequently. For example, working in the front-end it will sometimes totally ignore all the components that I have explicitly told it to use. Would this... fix that?−eightysixfour1yThis would help, but you can also use a more aggressive approach to cursor rules: https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/Using file pattern matching and automatic attachment makes it much, much more sticky in my experience.−kelleyperry1yI actually had Claude Desktop with the file system MCP write me out a pretty nice suite of rules directly in the .cursor/rules folder.
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One of the big problems I have with cursor is that it ignores the rules frequently. For example, working in the front-end it will sometimes totally ignore all the components that I have explicitly told it to use. Would this... fix that?
This would help, but you can also use a more aggressive approach to cursor rules: https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/
Using file pattern matching and automatic attachment makes it much, much more sticky in my experience.
I actually had Claude Desktop with the file system MCP write me out a pretty nice suite of rules directly in the .cursor/rules folder.