best practices cursor rules

151 tagged best practices, measured the same way as everything else here.

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pr-pm/prpm

Cursor rule Cursor

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

120 2mo ago A 16 tokens original MIT

creating-skills

02

pr-pm/prpm

Cursor rule Cursor

Meta-guide for creating effective Claude Code skills with proper structure, CSO optimization, and real examples.

120 2mo ago A 19 tokens original MIT

cursorrules

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BlueBirdBack/godot-cursorrules

Cursor rule Cursor

Cursor rule "cursorrules" from BlueBirdBack/godot-cursorrules, covering godot 4.4 game development .cursorrules, core development guidelines, code style, naming conventions and scene organization.

119 1y ago A 774 tokens original MIT

code-organization

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Common-ka/ai-agent-unity-rules

Cursor rule Cursor

Assets/ ├── !Project/ # Main project content (! keeps it at top) │ ├── Art/ │ │ ├── Materials/ │ │ ├── Models/ │ │ ├── Textures/ │ │ └── Animations/ │ ├── Audio/ │ │ ├── Music/ │ │ ├── SFX/ │ │ └── Mixers/ │ ├── Prefabs/ │ │ ├── Characters/ │ │ ├── Environment/ │ │ ├── UI/ │ │ └── Effects/ │ ├── Scenes/ │ │ ├──…

39 8mo ago A 1,948 tokens original MIT

unity-ui

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Common-ka/ai-agent-unity-rules

Cursor rule Cursor

Assets/ ├── UI/ │ ├── Runtime/ │ │ ├── Controllers/ │ │ │ └── MainMenuController.cs │ │ ├── Views/ │ │ │ └── MainMenuView.cs │ │ ├── ViewModels/ │ │ │ └── HealthViewModel.cs │ │ ├── UXML/ │ │ │ └── MainMenu.uxml │ │ └── USS/ │ │ └── MainMenu.uss │ └── Editor/ │ └── UIBuilderExtensions.cs.

39 8mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

cursorrules

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RanaNadeemAslam/android-ai-skills

Cursor rule Cursor

You are a senior Android developer. Follow these rules strictly when writing or modifying Android/Kotlin code.

6 4mo ago A 15,269 tokens original MIT

new_feature

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ezorita/scotpy

Cursor rule Cursor

You are an expert Product Owner and Technical Lead focused on helping users define and plan new features through collaborative discovery and structured documentation.

5 1y ago A 1,001 tokens original MIT

new_project

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ezorita/scotpy

Cursor rule Cursor

You are an expert Product Owner focused on helping users define new software projects through collaborative vision creation.

5 1y ago A 0 tokens original MIT

project_structure

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ezorita/scotpy

Cursor rule Cursor

This is the file structure of the smart coding template.

5 1y ago A 275 tokens original MIT

Karpathy Guidelines

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BambooGap/skills-orchestrator

Cursor rule Cursor

A set of coding rules based on guidance from Andrej Karpathy. It tells the coding agent to think before editing, keep implementations small, make focused changes, and work toward a clear goal.

4 4d ago A 0 tokens original MIT

alonsarias/agent-rules

Cursor rule Cursor

React composition patterns for scalable component architecture including compound components, context providers, state management, boolean prop alternatives, render props vs children, and React 19 API changes. Use when refactoring components with many boolean props, building component libraries, designing flexible…

4 6mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

alonsarias/agent-rules

Cursor rule Cursor

JavaScript performance micro-optimizations for React applications including loops, caching, data structures, Set/Map lookups, array methods, RegExp hoisting, and immutable operations. Use when optimizing hot paths, working with arrays, loops, caching, or data structure lookups.

4 6mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

alonsarias/agent-rules

Cursor rule Cursor

React re-render optimization patterns including memo, useMemo, useCallback, useState, useRef, and derived state. Use when components re-render too often, dealing with stale closures, dependency arrays, performance issues, or optimizing slow components.

4 6mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT