I wound up with a somewhat tight generic AGENTS.md, and the .cursor/rules individual files with glob matching for file names
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In the thread “I used autoresearch to improve my AGENTS.md, measured against real tasks”
Helped: Progressive disclosure with glob-matched rule files.
Got in the way: Models do not guarantee every instruction is followed.
… having all the major models figure out the most optimal strategy for itself inside of Cursor, with cursorrules, AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules/ mrd files or whatever and learned some interesting things, how it won’t guarantee every instruction even when it’s told to, for example Seems like the progressive disclosure approach is the best for context efficiency; I wound up with a somewhat tight generic AGENTS.md, and the .cursor/rules individual files with glob matching for file names. Cursor honored those well. …