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Using ContextOS with Cursor

Cursor's power is edit-speed; its weakness is context. A ContextOS workspace fixes the weakness: .cursorrules carries your conventions into every edit.

Setup

Three steps:

  • Extract the workspace into your repo root (or drop the folders into an existing repo).
  • Open the folder in Cursor — it reads .cursorrules from the root automatically.
  • Pin AI Instructions/ in your context so chat sessions see the full navigation map, not just the rules file.

What the rules file does

The workspace's .cursorrules tells Cursor how this project is organised, which files are generated (never touch), which docs are authoritative, and what conventions the codebase follows. It turns Tab-completion from plausible to correct.

First task

Prove the context is live before real work:

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Review the Product folder and propose the next roadmap milestone, citing the documents you used.
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