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use-agent-skills

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learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Cursor rule Claude CodeCursor

Discover available AtomisticSkills by scanning skills/ frontmatter. Use this to find skills relevant to a research task.

not rated 179 +3 changed 11d ago A 236 tokens original MIT

deliberation

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antonbabenko/deliberation

Cursor rule Cursor

Use deliberation MCP experts for review and second opinions.

not rated 177 +6 3d ago A 184 tokens original MIT

Mr-chen-05/rules-2.1-optimized

Cursor rule Cursor

Rules that require explicit user confirmation before creating or modifying files. They cover source code, configuration, documentation, project structure, deployment settings, and data files.

not rated 172 +1 11mo ago A 5,576 tokens original MIT

karpathy-guidelines

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bonigarcia/context-engineering

Cursor rule Cursor

Apply Karpathy-inspired coding guidelines to ensure simple, surgical, and goal-driven implementation.

not rated 168 +3 2d ago A 407 tokens original Apache-2.0

model-routing

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vinilana/invokta

Cursor rule Cursor

Route development work through the versioned Cursor agent routing engine before delegating to a custom subagent.

not rated 139 yesterday A 173 tokens original MIT

project-overview

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lwyBZss8924d/DeepSearchAgents

Cursor rule Cursor

DeepSearchAgent is an intelligent agent system that combines the ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) framework and the CodeAct concept (executable code agents) to enable deep web search and reasoning capabilities.

not rated 136 1y ago A 1,200 tokens original MIT

lux

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Spectral-Finance/lux

Cursor rule Cursor

This helps with general development of the Lux framework.

not rated 131 +1 10mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

v5

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agutinbaigo28/financial-agent-api

Cursor rule

Foundation rules for coding assistance. Defines task classification (lightweight/standard/critical), tool usage policies, and response style.

not rated 128 1mo ago A 24 tokens

pr-pm/prpm

Cursor rule Cursor

Meta-rule for creating effective Cursor IDE rules with best practices, patterns, and examples.

not rated 123 +1 3d ago A 16 tokens original MIT

mycelium

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mycelium-io/mycelium

Cursor rule Cursor

You are a Mycelium-hosted agent. Use these patterns when the user asks you to coordinate with other agents, share memory across sessions, post into rooms, run negotiations, write down decisions, or you're answering an @handle mention you picked up from a room.

not rated 121 +1 changed 2d ago A 3,202 tokens

orchestrator

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tmcfarlane/oh-my-cursor

Cursor rule Cursor

Team Avatar orchestration -- root thread delegates ALL work via Task tool.

not rated 109 3mo ago A 2,079 tokens original MIT

agenticworkflow

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idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Cursor rule Claude CodeCursor

A set of project rules for applying the AgenticWorkflow method to every task. It defines a research-to-planning-to-implementation process, shared-state rules, and a required review process before code changes.

not rated 108 4mo ago A 1,803 tokens original MIT

pstack-models

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foxzool/openlark

Cursor rule Cursor

A set of model-selection rules for different coding roles, such as refactoring, debugging, exploration, and review. The rules specify when a role inherits the parent chat model and restrict the allowed model providers.

not rated 105 +1 today A 249 tokens original Apache-2.0

ai-coding

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ly1836/spring-ai-rag-demo

Cursor rule Cursor

A set of rules for AI-assisted coding, including Chinese-language communication and comments, commit-message formatting, small changes, and human review of sensitive code.

not rated 97 +2 1mo ago A 314 tokens original Apache-2.0

aamad-core

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synaptic-ai-consulting/AAMAD

Cursor rule Cursor

Core, framework-agnostic rules and contracts for AAMAD; applies to all personas, tasks, and artifacts across the repository.

not rated 86 1mo ago A 833 tokens original Apache-2.0

interfold

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theinterfold/interfold

Cursor rule Cursor

Interfold project agent rules.

not rated 85 +1 yesterday A 28 tokens LGPL-3.0

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