Marked as helpful by the asker
Each chat starts empty by design. The way to carry knowledge over is rules files, which Cursor adds to every chat:
- Create
.cursorrulesin the project root (or rules in.cursor/rules/). - Put the stuff you keep repeating in it: stack, folder structure, database names, conventions.
Then start new chats freely. One week-long chat is the worst of both worlds, as you noticed.
Made a .cursorrules with 15 lines. New chats just know it now. Wish I knew this a month ago. jakeypoo
Also useful: @ a file in the chat to pull in a specific file instead of hoping it finds it. katie_on_cursor
