If it's a single project, you could try putting some of your corrections in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md if supported. I don't remember if cursor reads from there, but I think it does have its own rules system.
Basically just a bullet list of stuff like "- use httpx instead of requests" or "- http libraries already exist, we dont need to build a new one that shells out to /proc/tcp"
Just add stuff you find yourself correcting a lot. You may realize you have a set of coding conventions and you just need to document it in the repo and point to that.
Smaller project-specific lists like that have been better imo vs giant prompts. If I wouldn't expect a colleague to read a giant instruction doc, I'm not going to expect llms to do a good job of it either.
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If it's a single project, you could try putting some of your corrections in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md if supported. I don't remember if cursor reads from there, but I think it does have its own rules system.
Basically just a bullet list of stuff like "- use httpx instead of requests" or "- http libraries already exist, we dont need to build a new one that shells out to /proc/tcp"
Just add stuff you find yourself correcting a lot. You may realize you have a set of coding conventions and you just need to document it in the repo and point to that.
Smaller project-specific lists like that have been better imo vs giant prompts. If I wouldn't expect a colleague to read a giant instruction doc, I'm not going to expect llms to do a good job of it either.