# Support for ".agent" folder compatibility

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-for-agent-folder-compatibility/154167>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** rules\
**Created:** [March 9, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-for-agent-folder-compatibility/154167 "2026-03-09T15:09:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![felippe.serralvo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@felippe.serralvo](https://forum.cursor.com/u/felippe.serralvo)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-for-agent-folder-compatibility/154167/1 "2026-03-09T15:09:12Z")

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More and more people are looking for standarize the storage folder of agents/commands/rules/skills/etc… and everyday more of another players are adopting the “.agents” as a “neutral” folder for it, to be compatible for multiple orchestration and etc.  
Is there a plan to adopt it too like OpenCode and other players did ? For now is a bit tiring being in need of using sync alternatives/symbolic links to have all of it working well as one.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/colin/32/90452_2.png) [@Colin](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-for-agent-folder-compatibility/154167/4 "2026-03-11T14:34:14Z")

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Hey @felippe.serralvo!

Thanks for the feedback. Right now `.agents/skills` is supported in Cursor. No concrete plans for supporting `.agents/rules` or other subfolders at this point.

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**Author:** ![thifeelsthevibes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@thifeelsthevibes](https://forum.cursor.com/u/thifeelsthevibes)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-for-agent-folder-compatibility/154167/6 "2026-06-16T09:09:48Z")

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### Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

### Describe the request

Cursor already loads skills from `.agents/skills/` alongside `.cursor/skills/` as documented on the [Skills](https://cursor.com/docs/skills) page:

> Skills are automatically loaded from: .agents/skills/ (Project-level), .cursor/skills/ (Project-level)

`.agents/` is emerging as a cross-platform location for agent configuration, and Cursor already treats it as a first-class directory for skills. It would be natural to extend this to rules as well.

The ask: apply the same discovery logic to `.agents/rules/`, loading `.md` / `.mdc` files using the same frontmatter parsing already used for `.cursor/rules/`.

This would give teams a single cross-platform location for all agent configuration without having to duplicate rules into `.cursor/rules/` or maintain a sync step.

### Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS