# Awesome CursorRules

> Hundreds of stack specific instruction files to read and adapt

Category: Agent skills and instruction sets (https://aiarabicdev.com/skills)
Canonical page: https://aiarabicdev.com/skills/awesome-cursorrules
Tags: skills, cursor, rules, conventions, awesome-list

A large collection of rules files for Cursor, organised by stack: Next.js, React Native, Django, Go and many more. Although written for one editor, the files are plain instructions and port to any agent that reads a project instruction file.

## Facts

- Licence: CC0-1.0
- Cost: Free and open source
- Self hostable: yes
- Added: 2026-08-23
- Last checked: 2026-08-23

## Links

- Source: https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules

## Why it is worth reading across tools

The content is stack conventions, not editor configuration. A good Next.js rules file says the same things whichever tool is going to read it, so these transfer to AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md with light editing.

The volume is the value. Reading five files for the same stack shows you which rules everyone converges on, and those are usually the ones worth keeping.

## How to adapt one properly

Delete aggressively. Most of these files are two or three times longer than they need to be, and every unnecessary line is context your actual task does not get.

Keep the rules that are not discoverable from the code and drop everything the agent could learn by reading a file. That test alone usually removes half the document.

## Reach for it when

- you want a starting point for your stack rather than a blank file
- you want to see which conventions everyone agrees on
- you are moving from one agent tool to another and want to port your rules

## Watch out for

- most files are far longer than they need to be, so cut hard
- written for one editor, so some directives will not apply to your tool
- stack specific advice ages, and framework versions move underneath it

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