create-rule SKILL.md skillA

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create-rule from kensaurus/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add kensaurus/skills/create-rule@git:20260923.cf348bd

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Audit grade

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

kensaurus/skills

Path

skills-cursor/create-rule/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

4

Latest version

git:20260923.cf348bd, committed Sep 23, 2026

First version recorded

Feb 8, 2026

Size

4,800 bytes

Repository stars

9

License

MIT

Create Cursor rules for persistent AI guidance. Use when user wants to create a rule, add coding standards, project conventions, file-specific patterns, or mentions ".cursor/rules", "AGENTS.md", "cursor rule", "coding standard", "convention", or "AI guidance".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Creating Cursor Rules

Create project rules in `.cursor/rules/` to provide persistent context for the AI agent.
For one plain-Markdown file that always applies, `AGENTS.md` at the project root does the same job as an `alwaysApply` rule and needs no frontmatter.

## Check existing first

**Before creating a rule, check:**

1. **Check for existing rules:**
```bash
ls -la .cursor/rules/*.mdc 2>/dev/null
cat .cursor/rules/*.mdc 2>/dev/null | head -100
```

2. **Check for conflicting conventions:**
```bash
cat CONTRIBUTING.md .editorconfig .eslintrc* 2>/dev/null | head -50
```

3. **Check if similar rule exists:**
- Don't duplicate existing rules
- Consider extending existing rules instead

**Why:** Rules should complement, not conflict with, existing project conventions.

## Gather Requirements

Before creating a rule, determine:

1. **Purpose**: What should this rule enforce or teach?
2. **Scope**: Should it always apply, or only for specific files?
3. **File patterns**: If file-specific, which glob patterns?

### Inferring from Context
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add kensaurus/skills/create-rule@sha256:d34e38fea5ab2d5c

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3fh2t6cc5tjmfi3a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3fh2t6cc5tjmfi3a)

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Feb 8, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026, about one every 76 days.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3fh2t6cc5tjmfi3a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kensaurus/skills/create-rule
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d34e38fea5ab2d5c16ad31412ea89ee66b2047fcfe3111dd0deaa30b097cebb3

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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