Problem I’ve tried to make Cursor to write it’s own rules. In theory it should’ve worked like: You solve a task in agent mode Ask him to update related rules to keep it updated It just does not work. Cursor seems like does not know what “rules” is. Ok, fine, understandable. Next try. I just writ…

Cursor agent cannot write to .cursor/rules (even to *.mdc files)

Biggs March 28, 2025, 12:54pm 2

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