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Get your Claude Code rules into Cursor

You have rules configured in Claude Code and want the same guidance in Cursor — without maintaining two copies by hand. This guide moves them through syllago in four commands.

What you need

Section titled “What you need”
  • syllago installed and initialized (syllago init)
  • Claude Code with at least one rule configured (CLAUDE.md or .claude/ rules)

1. See what Claude Code has

Section titled “1. See what Claude Code has”
Terminal window
syllago add --from claude-code

Without a positional argument, add runs in discovery mode: it lists the content Claude Code has available without importing anything.

2. Import the rules into your library

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Terminal window
# Import all rules
syllago add rules --from claude-code


# Or import one specific rule
syllago add rules/security --from claude-code

The rules are copied into your library (~/.syllago/content/), where syllago manages them independently of Claude Code. Run syllago list to confirm what landed.

3. Preview the install

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syllago install security --to cursor --dry-run

--dry-run shows exactly what would be written to Cursor’s directories without touching anything. Nothing changes until you run the command without the flag.

4. Install to Cursor

Section titled “4. Install to Cursor”
Terminal window
syllago install security --to cursor

By default syllago installs a symlink, so future edits to the rule in your library show up in Cursor immediately. Pass --method copy if you want a standalone file instead.

5. Verify it worked

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Look in your project’s .cursor/rules/ directory — you should see the rule as an .mdc file:

Terminal window
ls .cursor/rules/

Open Cursor and the rule is active. You can also confirm syllago’s view of the install with syllago list.

What syllago converted for you

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Claude Code stores rules as plain Markdown; Cursor expects MDC format (.mdc files with metadata frontmatter like description, alwaysApply, and globs). syllago performs that conversion automatically during install — the copy in your library stays in canonical form, so the same rule can also be installed to any other provider. See Format Conversion for the details.

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