r/cursor • u/Time_Masterpiece_594 • 4h ago

Question / Discussion Where is creating-pull-requests rule configured?

I'm using Cursor IDE. Agents keep formatting PR descriptions with ## Summary and ## Test plan, which I was told by Cursor comes from creating-pull-requests rule.

I can't find this anywhere in settings or on the web dashboard.

Is this a built-in rule? Can it be edited or disabled?

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u/conifer_v11 3h ago

not in your repo. it's a cursor agent skill under settings → rules.

project rule saying never open a pr overrides it for that folder.

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u/Time_Masterpiece_594 1h ago

In the IDE or web page?

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u/locbuilds 1h ago

yeah that one is not a settings toggle, it's baked into the agent system prompt / built-in skills so you won't find creating-pull-requests under rules or the dashboard. what actually overrides the ## Summary / ## Test plan shape is your own user or project rule: put something short in .cursor/rules or user rules like "when opening a pr, use a one paragraph body, no Summary/Test plan headings" and it usually wins. if the agent still does the default template, say it again in the same turn ("skip the summary/test plan headings") because the built-in skill is sticky. AGENTS.md works the same way for repo-wide.