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Cursor-rules projects on GitHub

Rule files that shape AI coding assistant behavior in editors.

As of , the most-starred Cursor-rules projects on GitHub are andrej-karpathy-skills (220.4K stars), ponytail (165.2K stars) and agents (40.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Cursor-rules repositories with 488.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ponytail, with +758 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

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ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail · ★ 165.2K

Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.

+299

andrej-karpathy-skills

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills · ★ 220.4K

A single CLAUDE.md file (also distributable as a Claude Code plugin) that encodes four guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on common LLM coding pitfalls, meant to make Claude Code behave more carefully and avoid overengineering.

+61

agents

wshobson/agents · ★ 40.9K

A multi-harness marketplace of agentic building blocks for coding agents: 94 plugins, 202 agents, 183 skills, and 105 commands built from a single Markdown source and consumed natively by Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot.

+28

awesome-cursorrules

PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules · ★ 40.9K

A curated awesome-list of Cursor Project Rules: ready-made Markdown configuration files (.mdc) that make the Cursor AI code editor follow your project's own standards, architecture and conventions instead of relying on generic coding knowledge.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

    andrej-karpathy-skills

    A single CLAUDE.md file (also distributable as a Claude Code plugin) that encodes four guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on common LLM coding pitfalls, meant to make Claude Code behave more carefully and avoid overengineering.

    220.4K
  2. #2 · DietrichGebert/ponytail

    ponytail

    Ponytail is a skill for AI coding agents that channels the laziest senior dev in the room: the agent writes only what the task needs, on the belief that the best code is the code you never wrote.

    165.2K
  3. #3 · wshobson/agents

    agents

    A multi-harness marketplace of agentic building blocks for coding agents: 94 plugins, 202 agents, 183 skills, and 105 commands built from a single Markdown source and consumed natively by Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot.

    40.9K
  1. 4

    awesome-cursorrules

    40.9KPatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules · JavaScript

    A curated awesome-list of Cursor Project Rules: ready-made Markdown configuration files (.mdc) that make the Cursor AI code editor follow your project's own standards, architecture and conventions instead of relying on generic coding knowledge.

  2. 5

    agency-agents-zh

    21.3KjnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh · Shell

    A Chinese-community edition of the agency-agents library: 277 plug-and-play AI expert personas covering 20 departments — from CEO and CTO to engineering, design, security and finance — that install into AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot.

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