Transform your Cline AI coding patterns into powerful, reusable Cursor rules
An easy way to leverage proven Cline interaction patterns and workflows through Cursor's rules system, ensuring consistent AI behavior across all your coding sessions.
Moving from Cline to Cursor can feel like starting over. You've developed effective patterns and workflows with Cline, but Cursor works differently:
- Cline: Context-aware, session-based interactions with memory
- Cursor: Powerful but starts fresh each time without built-in memory
- The Gap: How do you maintain the same level of AI effectiveness and consistency?
- 🔄 Repeating the same instructions every session
- 📉 Inconsistent AI behavior across different interactions
- 🧠 Losing the "training" you've built up with Cline
- ⏰ Wasting time re-establishing context and preferences
- 👥 Difficulty sharing effective patterns with team members
This repository bridges that gap by translating proven Cline patterns into Cursor's rules system. Instead of losing your hard-earned AI interaction expertise, you can encode it into rules that work automatically.
- Effective prompting strategies you've discovered
- Workflow preferences (planning vs. acting modes)
- Code style and architecture decisions
- Documentation standards and practices
- Testing and deployment patterns
❌ Before: "Please remember to always create tests when adding new features..."
✅ After: Rule automatically ensures tests are created for every new feature
❌ Before: "Use TypeScript, follow our naming conventions, and..."
✅ After: All coding standards automatically applied
❌ Before: Starting each session by explaining your project structure
✅ After: AI instantly understands your project through persistent rules
- Same AI behavior across all sessions
- No more "training" the AI each time
- Reliable, predictable interactions
- Skip repetitive setup and context-setting
- Jump straight into productive coding
- Faster onboarding for new team members
- Share effective patterns across your team
- Build a library of proven approaches
- Standardize AI interactions organization-wide
- Capture tribal knowledge in rules
- Preserve effective patterns that took time to develop
- Build upon community-tested approaches
📁 Global Rules (Apply everywhere)
├── Core coding standards
├── General workflow preferences
└── Universal best practices
📁 Workspace Rules (Project-specific)
├── Architecture patterns
├── Technology stack preferences
├── Project-specific workflows
└── Domain knowledge
- Detection: Cursor automatically detects relevant rules
- Application: Rules are applied to every AI interaction
- Consistency: Same behavior guaranteed across sessions
- Evolution: Rules can be updated and improved over time
- Clone this repository to explore example rules
- Copy relevant rule files to your
.cursor/directory - Customize rules to match your specific patterns
- Test with a new Cursor session to see the difference
---
description: "Ensure test coverage for new features"
patterns: ["**/*.ts", "**/*.js"]
---
When creating new functions or features:
1. Always include corresponding unit tests
2. Use Jest/Vitest testing framework
3. Aim for >80% code coverage
4. Include both positive and negative test cases- 🔀 Share Patterns: Submit your effective Cline patterns as rules
- 📝 Improve Documentation: Help others understand and use rules
- 🐛 Report Issues: Help us identify and fix problems
- 💡 Suggest Features: Propose new rule patterns or improvements
- 📋 Issues: Report bugs or ask questions
- 💬 Discussions: Share experiences and get advice
- 📚 Wiki: Browse detailed documentation and examples
- 🔄 Rule Validation: Tools to test and validate rule effectiveness
- 📊 Analytics: Measure rule impact on productivity
- 🌐 Community Hub: Shared library of community-tested rules
- 🔧 Migration Tools: Automated Cline-to-Cursor transition helpers
"After implementing these rules, our team's AI productivity increased by 3x. No more explaining our coding standards every session!"
— Frontend Team Lead
"The memory bank pattern alone saved us hours of context-setting. Game changer for large projects."
— Senior Developer
Start by exploring the examples/ directory and implementing one rule that matches your most common Cline pattern. You'll immediately see the difference in consistency and efficiency.
Remember: Good rules are like good habits — they compound over time to create exponential improvements in your development workflow.
Made with ❤️ by developers who believe AI should work consistently and efficiently