User rule has a bug

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I am encountering a problem with the User Rule functionality in Cursor. Here’s the detailed report:

  • Cursor Version:

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cursor -v  
0.51.2  
f364e608fc11d38303429b80fd1e1f32d7587d40  
x64

  • Issue:
    When I open a project in Cursor and modify a User Rule, the changes do not take effect in another project. The User Rules seem completely isolated between projects, as if they are not shared or synchronized globally.

  • Expected Behavior:
    User Rules are intended to be global settings that apply across all projects, but currently, they behave like project-specific configurations. This makes the “User Rule” concept inconsistent with its purpose, as changes in one project do not reflect in others.

Could you please investigate whether this is an intended behavior or a bug? If it’s a bug, fixing the synchronization of User Rules across projects would greatly improve the consistency and usability of Cursor.

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Hi, I have tried following but could not reproduce your issue.

  1. Created a User Rule in project 1.
  1. Opened New Window and selected another project 2
  1. Then opened Cursor Settings and clicked on Rules.
  1. It loads for a bit the user rules then the new rule from project 1 shows in project 2.

Could you please close all Cursor instances and try with my steps?
Please let me know if you had different steps/circumstances as this would help Cursor devs to reproduce the issue.

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Thank you for your help. After upgrading the Cursor version today, here is the result of cursor -v:
1.0.0
53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860
x64

The user rules are now working properly. Yesterday, even though I had set up some rules in the user rule settings, opening some old projects showed no rules at all.

This function is now working normally in this version. Thank you for your reply.

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