Use .cursorrules outside repo

Feature Requests
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Hello!

It would be nice to point Cursor to a .cursorrules file outside the repo.
I have a set of language-specific rules to apply to all projects using that language and:

  1. I don’t want to have multiple copies of this file
  2. I want to back it up centrally and not in the git repo.

Do you think it’s feasible?

Ideally this file should be chained to repo specific rules if any.

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Hey, we have some changes to AI rules coming soon, which may change your workflow around this!

Have a go with our new update once it’s out, and let us know how you get on.

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Looking forward to this, thanks for the heads up.

We are also in need of having shared .cursorrules for an org, in order to broadcast best practices changes across an org in an easier way.