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Kind of related to rules, commands, and

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tools.
There also is a special file you can add

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projects. Here,
I'm back in a Python project,

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project. It's a .cursorignore

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file, and it acts like a git ignore file.

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It allows you to specify files cursor
should never be

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allowed to look at. For example,
my .env file which contains

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environment variables I don't want to
expose, not to cursor, not to anyone

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else. Now, in case of .env,
you actually don't need to

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add them here because .env
is a special file that is ignored by

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default anyways,
which you can tell by this icon.

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Nonetheless, as an example,
we can add it here again.

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And you could add any other files you
don't want cursor to inspect

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like the .venv file
which contains the virtual environment,

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So if you have any code, any files
that should not be considered by cursor,

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adding them to such a .cursorignore file
is a good idea.