# Rules Usage in Cursor Tab

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/rules-usage-in-cursor-tab/109501>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [June 26, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/rules-usage-in-cursor-tab/109501 "2025-06-26T07:49:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Fabian\_Delius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@Fabian\_Delius](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Fabian_Delius)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/rules-usage-in-cursor-tab/109501/1 "2025-06-26T07:49:52Z")

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Hey Cursor Team!

I love that I am able to provide Markdown documentation in the rules directory that will then be considered by the chat and edit functionality.

We are using that to teach the LLM about usage pattern in our application code, like how to open popovers, how to enforce permissions, how to translate strings, etc. and it works reasonably well bringing the generated code a lot closer to working out-of-the-box.

However, most of the time, we use the Cursor Tab, while it’s rather rare to interact with the code via Cmd-K or the chat. Since Cursor Tab doesn’t consider rules, we are missing out the same quality of generated code.

It would be great to get at least some kind of rules support in Cursor Tab. I think it could potentially be a lot more selective about the rules it chooses. I would also be okay with providing very compact dedicated docs for Cursor Tab.

For us, Cursor Tab is the most used feature and I think we would greatly benefit from it considering more of the general patterns in our codebase.

Thanks for your great product!

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**Author:** ![YuTengjing](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/yutengjing/32/3704_2.png) [@YuTengjing](https://forum.cursor.com/u/YuTengjing)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/rules-usage-in-cursor-tab/109501/2 "2025-06-27T07:06:27Z")

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As the core feature of cursor, cursor tab seems long time no update but to more and more slow

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**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/rules-usage-in-cursor-tab/109501/3 "2025-06-27T07:23:40Z")

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Are you sure the Cursor Tab model hasnt been upgdated? There are details about updates in Changelog and in Docs.