chore: OVL-88 - Add Cursor behavioral guidelines for AI-assisted development#50
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Introduce always-applied rules to reduce overcomplication, encourage surgical changes, and define verifiable success criteria when working with LLMs.
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Adds an always-applied Cursor rule document to guide AI-assisted development toward simpler, more surgical changes with explicit assumptions and verifiable success criteria.
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- Introduces a new
.cursor/rules/behavioral-guidelines.mdcrules file withalwaysApply: true. - Documents a four-part workflow: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, and goal-driven execution with verification.
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Introduce always-applied rules to reduce overcomplication, encourage surgical changes, and define verifiable success criteria when working with LLMs.