Project Rules for Design Consistency (.cursor/rules)
Cursor Team · Cursor Docs ·
Cursor's official Rules system lets you pin reusable, scoped instructions — including a design-system rule that encodes tokens, spacing and component conventions — so every generation stays on-brand. Covers MDC format, globs, and auto-attached vs. always-on rules.
Publisher summary
Rules let you provide persistent, reusable context to the Agent. Use a project rule to encode your design system so generated UI follows your tokens and conventions.
In this article
- Project rules live in .cursor/rules as MDC files
- Scope rules with globs (e.g. components/**)
- Always-on vs. auto-attached vs. agent-requested rules
- Encoding a design system: tokens, spacing, typography
- Nested rules for monorepos and sub-packages
Source: Cursor Docs
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