cursor-rules
A style guide for Cursor rules—covering clean-code practices, architecture guidelines, language-specific rules and guidelines for tooling usage
Install / Use
npx skills add davenicoll/cursor-rulesInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
.cursorrules
Cursor IDE rules (legacy)
Quality Score
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Our assessment of cursor-rules
cursor-rules scores 47/100 on our quality scale, 934th of 963 AI & Machine Learning skills we index.
Its .cursorrules is 730 bytes long, split into 3 sections and no code examples: fairly brief, so expect to fill in details yourself.
It has 11 GitHub stars, so there is little community track record yet; judge it on its content.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated about 15 months ago. Expect some instructions to reference tool versions or APIs that have since changed.
- Our last check on 2026-10-21 found the source still online.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 73/100, with 2 cautions from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| cursor-rules (this skill)by davenicoll | 47 | 11 | 15mo ago | .cursorrules |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install cursor-rules?
- Run
npx skills add davenicoll/cursor-rules. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does cursor-rules work with?
- It is written for Cursor, as a .cursorrules file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is cursor-rules safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It declares no license and scores 73/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is cursor-rules still maintained?
- The repository was last updated about 15 months ago. Expect some instructions to reference tool versions or APIs that have since changed.
Skill content
View source on GitHubCursor Rules
I created this repo as a style guide for Cursor rules—covering naming conventions, clean-code practices, version management, language-specific rules, and architecture guidelines. The goal is to steer Cursor’s AI toward more consistent, reliable outputs.
See https://davenicoll.com/getting-started-with-ai-assisted-coding/ for how to use these rules.
Cursor Setup
The fastest way to start using rules in Cursor is to either symlink the .cursor folder or copy the entire .cursor folder into the root of your repository containing code. Cursor will automatically apply the rules in your next chat session.
Contributions Welcome
Fork and PR. This is the way.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.