Cursor is ignoring even the most simple rules in iteration development approach

[Marti]

Same experience. Especially “auto” is notoriously good in just ignoring whatever you write in the mdc files.

Cursor often forgets .mdc instructions

thats a really clever experiment. the fact that even an explicit “MUST call this tool” rule gets ignored kind of proves the point, its the same forgetting problem just with extra steps. i agree hooks would be the real fix here. something that runs at the cursor level, not the model level, so it cant be “forgotten.” like how linters run after you save a file regardless of what the editor thinks. the model shouldnt be the one responsible for remembering to check its own work. have you filed this…

In the thread above I proposed adding hooks (pre/post response) in which we could ask things like: “did you write all comments in English?” Or after detecting many changes “run the linter”. Currently it is all based on chances, but adding a hook could give us more control on steering the LLM into the right direction.