Workspace- or profile-scoped Cursor config (rules, skills, subagents, MCP)

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

I’d like Cursor to support workspace- or profile-scoped configuration so that rules, skills, subagents/agents, and optionally MCP can be shared across all projects in a multi-root workspace, without being global to every workspace or duplicated in every repo.

Current behaviour

  • Rules: Only project-level (.cursor/rules/ per repo) or user-level. In multi-root workspaces, only one folder’s rules appear to be used (e.g. first alphabetically), and there is no documented “workspace-level” rules.

  • Skills: Project-level (.cursor/skills/ or .agents/skills/) or user-level (~/.cursor/skills/). User-level applies to all workspaces; there is no “only in this workspace” scope.

  • Subagents / agents / MCP: Same idea — no workspace-scoped layer.

Desired behaviour

Introduce a workspace-scoped (or profile-scoped) layer that:

  1. Applies only when a workspace is open (e.g. when opening a .code-workspace file or a multi-root workspace).

  2. Lives in a well-defined place, for example:

  • Next to the workspace file: e.g. if the workspace file is ~/workspaces/MyProduct.code-workspace, then ~/workspaces/.cursor/ (or ~/workspaces/.cursor/workspace/) holds workspace-level rules, skills, agents, and optionally MCP; or

  • A path specified inside the .code-workspace file (e.g. "cursor": { "configPath": ".cursor-workspace" }).

  1. Precedence: e.g. workspace → project (repo) → user, so workspace-level can provide shared defaults and repo-level can override.

Use case

  • Multi-root workspace with several repos (e.g. backend, frontend, landing) that should share the same rules, skills, and agent setup (e.g. coordinator, JDs, shared MCP).

  • I want one place to maintain “this workspace’s” AI config and have it apply to all roots, without affecting other workspaces and without duplicating the same rules/skills in every repo.

Related

Thanks for considering this.

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS