🎯 Cursor Rules & Prompts

💡 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.

📖 What This Is

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.

Key Features

✨ 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

🎁 Why Use This

• ✅ 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

💡 Real-World Example

❌ 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!

🚀 Quick Start

Option 1: Manual Setup

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

Option 2: Automatic Sync (Recommended)

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

# Download and run the sync script
curl -o sync-cursor-rules.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thehimel/cursor-rules-and-prompts/main/sync-cursor-rules.sh
chmod +x sync-cursor-rules.sh
./sync-cursor-rules.sh

📌 Sync Script Version: 1.0.0

⚠️ Important: Before running the sync script, always download the latest version to ensure you have the most recent updates. The script will display its version number when run - compare it with the version shown above. If your script version is older, download the updated script first.

The script will:

• 📋💬 Let you choose what to sync: Rules only, Prompts only, or Both
• ✅ Copy selected files if .cursor doesn't exist
• 🔄 Compare and sync files if .cursor already exists
• ❓ Ask before replacing modified files
• ➕ Automatically add new files from the repository

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

📦 What's Included

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. 🌱

📋 Rule Format

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

🎯 Use Cases

👥 For Teams

• 🎓 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

🧑‍💻 For Solo Developers

• ⭐ 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

🌐 For Open Source Projects

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

🛠️ Customization

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.

🤝 Contributing

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

📄 License

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.

👤 Author

Himel Das

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

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🎬 Getting Started Today

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.

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