Bind Specific Rules (.mdc) to Custom Modes or Agents

Feature Requests
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Hello Cursor Team,

First of all, thank you for building such an amazing and powerful AI-enhanced IDE.

As a power user working with multiple custom agents (via Custom Modes), I’ve run into a serious limitation:

Currently, any .mdc rule file marked as alwaysApply: true is applied globally to all agents, regardless of the context or agent identity. This leads to unintended behavior when multiple agents are active in the same project, each with its own expected responsibilities.

:sparkles: Feature Request:
Please add support for binding specific rule files (.mdc) to a given Custom Mode or Agent session.

For example:

  • If I’m using a Custom Mode named “Cruxor”, only cruxor.mdc should be applied.
  • When I switch to a “Startix” mode, only startix.mdc should be active.

This would allow users to:

  • Cleanly separate agent responsibilities
  • Avoid conflicting or overlapping instructions
  • Enable scalable multi-agent development workflows within a single workspace

Thank you again for your hard work. Cursor is changing how I build software — and this feature would make it even more modular and powerful.

Best regards,
Yasser_A