Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE I’m running it on Window 11 and opening a project in WSL2 running Ubuntu. Describe the Bug I have cursor rules in the seemingly correct location and the rules are not loaded or show in the settings. Steps to Reproduce Create rules, check the…

Thanks so much for this report - we found a condition where a new rules update (to support Agent Skills https://agentskills.io/ and more) would cause older rules to not load in some cases. It should be fully resolved now, even on the current versions.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Project Rules: Documented RULE.md folder format not working, only undocumented .mdc format works

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Rules are not loaded

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