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Besides rules and commands,
Cursor has two other features that can be

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quite useful.
We can take a look at them in the Cursor

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settings. Here under Rules, Memories, and

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Commands, we can see
that besides the rules which you

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already saw, we, for example,
also have memories.

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Now,
memories are a special feature offered by

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Cursor which must be turned on
which allows Cursor to

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automatically detect certain preferences
you might

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have, which it then stores as memories.

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So if you ask for something over
and over again, if you have

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specific instructions you repeat in
different chats, chances are that

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Cursor at some point will pick it up
and store it as a memory, which

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then essentially works just like a rule,
but it's a rule

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automatically created by Cursor,
you could say.

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So that's not something you have to
actively do.

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It's just something Cursor will bring up
from time to time.

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Besides that, we also have commands,
though.

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And just like rules,
you can add commands to your project

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overall user across multiple projects.

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Here, I'll add one to the project
and I'll name it

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Smart Docs. The name is up to you,
but I named this

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Smart Docs because this command should
actually

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get Cursor to use the Context7 MCP to

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find documentation for some technology it
might be working with.

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Now a command is still just some natural
language you

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write. So here,
I wrote for the received instruction,

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explore some documentation to learn how to
correctly use a certain feature or

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technology.
And then I have this Use Context7 clause

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should get it to use this Context7 MCP I
installed before.

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With this command saved, I can go

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into agent mode or also in the editor

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and open a new agent there.
It doesn't matter.

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Whenever I have a new instruction,
like for example, in to-do list change the

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animation to just fade in,
fade out with this running list being

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too, instead of typing Use Context7 here,

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I can use a forward slash.
Thereby default is a agent review

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rule provided by Cursor
which can be used for reviewing your code.

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Here I'll use my Smart Docs command.

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So instead of typing Use Context7,
I'll just use Smart Docs Boom and

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that should then get Cursor to use
that MCP to take a look

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at the documentation
and learn how it works.

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And you can set up all kinds of commands,
including commands that do security

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checks or evaluate the code for a certain
quality

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criteria you might have
or whatever you need.

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So that's a nice way of wrapping
instructions you might be repeating over

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and over again into easy-to-use commands.

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Here I'll undo that, though.