💡 Stop repeating yourself. Make Cursor AI follow your coding standards automatically.

A comprehensive collection of rules and prompts that transform Cursor from a helpful assistant into a team member who knows your codebase conventions. These rules enforce best practices, maintain code quality, and ensure consistency—without you having to explain the same things over and over.

Ever find yourself constantly reminding Cursor to "use @/ instead of relative paths" or "don't add inline styles"? This repository solves that. 🤯

Instead of manually correcting the AI every time, these rules ensure it follows your standards automatically. Think of it as a coding style guide that the AI actually reads, understands, and applies consistently across your entire project.

💼 It's like having a senior developer review every AI-generated change before it hits your codebase.

✨ Automatic Enforcement - Rules apply automatically, no manual intervention needed
🎯 Project-Agnostic - Works with any tech stack, easily customizable
📚 Comprehensive - Covers code style, organization, documentation, and more
🔄 Maintainable - Well-organized, easy to understand and modify
🚀 Time-Saving - Stop repeating the same instructions to AI

• ✅ Consistency: Your codebase stays consistent even when multiple people (or AI) work on it
• ⚡ Less Review Time: Fewer style issues means faster code reviews
• 🚀 Better Onboarding: New team members (and AI) understand your patterns immediately
• 🛡️ Quality by Default: Best practices are enforced automatically, not by memory
• ⏱️ Time Savings: Stop explaining the same conventions repeatedly

❌ Before: You ask Cursor to create a component, and it generates:

import { Button } from '../../../components/ui/button';
import { MyType } from '../types';

✅ After: With these rules, Cursor automatically generates:

import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
import { MyType } from '@/components/quiz/types';

🎉 The AI knows your conventions and follows them without being told!

1. 📥 Clone or copy this repository into your project
2. 📁 Place the .cursor folder in your project root
3. ✨ That's it - Cursor will automatically use these rules

Use the sync script to automatically keep your .cursor directory updated across all your projects:

# Add alias to ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc)
alias sync-cursor="~/PycharmProjects/cursor-rules-and-prompts/sync-cursor.sh"

# Reload shell configuration
source ~/.zshrc

# Run sync from any directory
sync-cursor

📌 Sync Script: sync-cursor.sh

⚠️ Important: The script requires a .include file in each destination's .cursor/ directory to specify what to sync. See sync-cursor.md for detailed documentation.

The script will:

• 🔄 Sync files from source to all destinations in ~/PycharmProjects/
• 🆔 Use ID-based matching to handle file renames and updates
• 📁 Support path-based syncing via .include file
• 🗑️ Automatically clean up orphaned files
• 📊 Show progress for each destination

💡 Note: The old fetch-cursor-rules.sh script is deprecated. Use sync-cursor.sh instead. See sync-cursor.md for full documentation.

💬 The rules are organized by category and apply automatically when you're working in Cursor. No configuration needed.

This repository contains a growing collection of rules and prompts organized by category. The rules cover areas like:

• 🎨 Code Style: Import patterns, component structure, styling conventions
• 📂 Organization: File structure, feature organization, code migration
• 📝 Documentation: Writing standards, comment style, documentation patterns
• 🏗️ Infrastructure: Route management, configuration patterns
• 🚫 Constraints: What to avoid, best practices
• 📚 Dependencies: Library selection, component usage

📍 Rules are stored in .cursor/rules/ organized by category, and reusable prompts are in .cursor/prompts/. The collection continues to grow as new patterns and best practices are identified. 🌱

All rules follow a consistent format:

---
alwaysApply: true | false
description: Brief description of what the rule does
author: Himel Das
---

# Rule Title

## Section
- Rule content
- More rules

Rules are:

• ✂️ Concise and generic - work across projects
• 🌍 Language independent - not tied to specific tech stacks
• 🎯 Action-oriented - explain what to do, not just how
• 📁 Well-organized - categorized for easy navigation

• 🎓 Onboarding: New developers (and AI) understand your patterns immediately
• 🔍 Code Reviews: Fewer style discussions, more focus on logic
• 🤝 Consistency: Multiple developers produce code that looks like one person wrote it

• ⭐ Quality: Best practices enforced automatically
• ⚡ Speed: Less time fixing style issues, more time building features
• 🔮 Future-Proofing: When you add team members, they'll follow the same patterns

• 🤝 Contributor Experience: Clear, consistent rules for everyone
• 🔧 Maintainability: Easier to maintain when code follows patterns
• 📖 Documentation: Rules serve as living documentation of your standards

These rules are designed to be:

• 🔄 Generic enough to work in most projects
• 🎯 Specific enough to be useful
• ✏️ Easy to modify for your needs

Feel free to:

• ➕ Add your own rules
• ✏️ Modify existing ones
• ➖ Remove rules that don't fit your project
• 📁 Create new categories as needed

📖 See the rule creation guidelines in .cursor/rules/organization/rule-creation.mdc for details on creating new rules.

This is a proprietary project. For permissions or inquiries, please contact Himel Das.

PROPRIETARY LICENSE - All Rights Reserved

Copyright (c) 2025 Himel Das

This software is proprietary and confidential. You are NOT permitted to:

• ❌ Share, distribute, or publish this software
• ❌ Modify or create derivative works
• ❌ Use this software for commercial purposes

If you are granted explicit permission to share, you must provide attribution to Himel Das.

See LICENSE file for full terms and conditions.

Himel Das

Created to help developers leverage Cursor AI more effectively and maintain high code quality standards.

1. 🍴 Fork or clone this repository
2. 📁 Copy the .cursor folder to your project root
3. 💻 Start coding - the rules work automatically

✨ No setup, no configuration, no hassle. Just better code, automatically.

⚠️ Note: These rules work with Cursor's AI features. Make sure you have Cursor installed and the .cursor folder in your project root for them to take effect.