Hi, I can’t seem to find the User Rules that the previous version of Cursor had—not the ones created in .cursor/rules, but the ones configured in the Cursor settings.
Are they deprecated in Cursor 2.5? If so, why do they still appear to be included in the prompt sent to the provider?
Base on my understanding.
Cursor try to migrate rules into Skills since its become https://agentskills.io/ open standard. Since its on nightly, i recomended you for migrate from Rule into Skill.
in Cursor, there are Skill on how migrate Rule into Skill.
Also for Cursor Rules, i can see it on 2.5 version
It’s not that one. I’m referring to the one from the early builds after .cursorrules, before the current rules system was introduced, the rules that could be shared across platforms as long as you were logged in with the same account (same user, not the same project). I think it was still present in 2.4.
Edit. Nevermind my bad it actually in one list with what you pointed at thx.
Having the same issue. I had a user-level rule that I now need to remove. But it’s not listed in the UI and it is still be used by the AI. Is there a way to see/delete old rules some way?
project-level .cursor/rules/ is the reliable path in my experience. if your user-level rules aren’t showing up, moving them into the project folder with proper frontmatter (alwaysApply: true) is the fastest fix.
Yes, the UI is confusing and there’s no clear grouping, which made it difficult to see it at first.If you look carefully in the Rules tab, you’ll see that the previous user-level rules are included there without any title. Only the first line is shown (and it’s trimmed), so it’s very easy to miss.If you already have many rules, try opening a new Cursor window without attaching any project, then go to the Rules section, It should reduce the noise.It looks like they’ve merged project rules and user-level rules into a single section.
