You can track any rule is called and taken into account by Cursor.
In the attached screenshot is the end result of prompt:
“what the date is today”
As you can see, the rules are called in the following order:
- User Rules
- ./cursorrules
- Project Rules: cursor-rule-1.mdc
- Project Rules: cursor-rule-2.mdc
- private rule in my project folder ./private-rules/private-rule.md
- notepad with the rule
I added only Cursor’s notepad with “Architect Mode” and a file with my private rule to the Chat context.
To get this effect I threw in each of these places at the beginning of the rule.
"start writing with 'I am in … '”
You can put the name of the rules you want to track.
This way you can check if the rule is loaded and if the order is as you expected.