Hey all, is there a best practice or way to apply global rules to Cloud Agents? Do I really need to commit them in every repo that a Cloud Agent uses?
Hi @Darren_L Thanks for the post! Mohit has a good answer for this here: Rules in cloud agent - #13 by mohitjain
So the rules I apply on Cursor Desktop on my computer are saved and applied to Cloud Agents?
Hi @Darren_L Yes, user rules are account scoped so they apply to your Cursor cloud agents as long as you’re launching them from the same account. Those are tied to your account rather than to a machine or a repo, so Cloud Agents pick them up automatically on every run. Nothing to commit, nothing to copy around. You’ll find them shown as Customize > Rules in recent versions, in the User Rules section.
File-based rules work differently. Project rules in .cursor/rules and AGENTS.md are read out of the repo the Cloud Agent checks out, so those only apply if they’re committed there. And any .mdc files you keep locally in ~/.cursor/rules stay on your machine, they aren’t uploaded, so a Cloud Agent won’t see them.
Hi all, I wanted to provide an update for my situation if anyone else is curious. I not only wanted the rules, but my skills and workflow customizations (e.g. DAG graph planning, implementation). Cursor cloud agents have been amazing in allowing me to use multiple repos so I can pull down a customizations repo that I have that is applied to my local and have it apply to my cloud agents as well. This has allowed me to greatly accelerate my productivity, and I am now making use of cloud agents more than I am my local setup.