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From clever prompts to governed workflows
Show why this lesson detail matters: "Anything load-bearing about how we build here belongs in the repo, version-controlled and reviewable."
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One mental shift decides whether a real team gets value from Cursor.
A great prompt is a personal asset. A great workflow is an organizational one. Adoption stalls when it stays at the prompt layer and it pays off when it moves to the repo layer.
In a shared repo the real question is how fifty people, each prompting differently, end up producing changes that look like one disciplined engineer wrote them. That's a governance problem. Your impact now shows up in the artifacts checked into the tree.
Project RulesVersion-controlled instructions in the repo that every Cursor agent interaction inherits, so standards are encoded once. Press Enter for the full definition. turn 50 prompters into one team.
Anything load-bearing about how we build here belongs in the repo, version-controlled and reviewable. Not in fifty private chat histories.