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title: '`.cursorrules`'
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  **`.cursorrules`** is a rules file referenced in this channel's captured
  material on AI-assisted development — a file used with the **Cursor** AI
  coding assistant to hold project-specific instructions that guide how the AI
  behaves in a codebase.
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# \`.cursorrules\`

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/cursorrules-ab7a739c61de

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**`.cursorrules`** is a rules file referenced in this channel's captured material on AI-assisted development — a file used with the **Cursor** AI coding assistant to hold project-specific instructions that guide how the AI behaves in a codebase.

In the captured conversation, **`.cursorrules`** shows up in the context of **AI-assisted development** — the same setting in which Cora was built as a one-night MVP and shipped to 10,000 signups in a month. In that workflow, a developer spends most of their time writing prompts and iterating with an AI coding assistant rather than typing every line by hand. A rules file like `.cursorrules` fits into that loop as the place where **project-specific instructions live**: instead of re-explaining your conventions to the assistant on every turn, you encode them once and let the file carry that context forward. As you explore the video, notice how this connects to the recurring themes of the episode — clarity of thought and taste over tedium. A rules file is ultimately a way of making your *intentions explicit to the machine*, which is exactly the discipline the conversation highlights: the better you can articulate what you want, the better the AI-assisted build goes.