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What is .cursorignore?

A file listing paths Cursor must never index or read, kept separate from .gitignore.

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Cursor team workflows in a shared repo — Context strategy is an engineering problemlesson
Cursor Product & Architecture — Context, indexing, rules & MCPlesson
Conversation Hygiene, Ignore Files and Privacy — Put it to worklesson
Governance, compliance & Cursor's control plane — Cursor's control surface: five families + Organizationslesson

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