Every related repo in one Cursor workspace

Put every related repo in one Cursor workspace with rules, skills and MCP. Data engineer working across data/backend/UI repos.

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Open sibling repos as one multi-root workspace and delete ceremony ruthlessly.

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Drawn from this card's sourced fields. Amber = older model named by the source. Rose = cut or replaced.

philliant-cursor-multirepo.toml

# Put every related repo in one Cursor workspace with rules, skills and MCP
# source: https://philliant.com/posts/20260313-my-cursor-setup/

[rig]
who     = "Data engineer working across data/backend/UI repos"
author  = "Philip Mathew Hern"
date    = "2026-03-13"

harness = ["Cursor"]
models  = ["\"biggest, baddest model\" available"]

[keep]
  - Multi-root workspace
  - Always-on rule .cursor/rules/project-standards.mdc
  - AGENTS.md
  - Skills e.g. release-checklist
  - MCP: GitHub, Atlassian, dbt Labs, Snowflake, Figma, Slack
  - .cursorignore

thing	status	why (per source)
Ceremony	delete ruthlessly	"keep what removes friction, and ruthlessly delete what adds ceremony"

Source: https://philliant.com/posts/20260313-my-cursor-setup/ · checked 2026-10-14

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~/rigs/alexfinn-grokbot-three-bots.toml2026-09-22

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