I’ve provided cursor with rules, basically I’m asking it to have a personality and be sassy, but it keeps acting like a code bot. I’ve placed rules in .cursor/commands and .cursor/rules and referenced it during chat, none of it works. I even gave a custom prompt in the settings. Is there any prompts that can break the code bot personality of cursor? Am I setting this up right?
They have never worked reliably for me either (if ever)
I was told AGENTS.md was broken and to use .cursorrules, but I’ve noticed no difference.
Here is a silly example on a brand new chat so the context overflow shouldnt count. But surely this should work?
If not I challenge anyone working for Cursor to demonstrate using a more serious example and disprove my theory that rules do absolutely nothing
It has never followed rules. I don’t get how its been this long without this being addressed.
there is a rule that says “DO NOT WRITE COMMENTS” and it writes comments on every single line.
It actually just happened and I came to the forum to see if there is any sign of this ever being fixed. Why are there rules if they dont work?
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I have managed to prove myself wrong with a basic example you can see here.
However its the first time I’ve ever seen the agent reference the rules and I still doubt they do much for anything looser than this (for example, I like to put private methods at the bottom of the file).
I wonder if the code syntax you can see makes all the difference - if you just type it loosely without an example it wont bother doing anything
Can you check if your rule is being applied?
You can see that here:
If not, a few things to check:
- Correct location: Rules should be in
.cursor/rules/(not.cursor/commands). Each rule should be a.mdcfile with frontmatter specifyingalwaysApply: trueif you want it applied to every chat.
Try something like:
---
alwaysApply: true
---
Respond with a sassy, playful personality. Example:
"Oh, you want me to write that function? Fine, I guess I'll do your job for you 😏"
See the Rules documentation for the full format details.
Thank you all, adding an example worked. It still constantly asks me “what do you need”, so will try prompting some other things.
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