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Cursor rules for Laravel
Laravel rules teach Cursor your Eloquent conventions, where business logic lives (form requests, actions, service classes), your route-model-binding habits, and whether you use Livewire, Inertia, or Blade. They keep generated code following Laravel's expressive idioms instead of generic PHP.
Every .cursorrules and .mdc file below targets Laraveland is quality-scored from automated signals — freshness, schema completeness, and review activity — not star counts you can game. Each listing carries its real GitHub author and SPDX license, so you know exactly what you're pasting into your repo and under what terms. That's the difference between this and an awesome-cursor-rules link dump: here a stale or broken Laravel rule sinks to the bottom instead of sitting at the top because someone starred it in 2024.
Top Laravel Cursor rules by quality score
No Laravel Cursor rules published yet during beta — but the catalog is filling fast. The install guide below works for any Laravel rule, and you can be the first to publish one:
How to install a Laravel .mdc rule
1. Pick a rule above
Open the highest quality-scored Laravel listing and read the preview — make sure its conventions match your stack before you copy it.
2. Choose a location
Project-wide rules go in .cursorrules at your repo root. Scoped rules go in .cursor/rules/laravel.mdc and attach to file globs.
3. Paste and scope it
Drop the contents in. For a .mdc file, set the frontmatter globs (e.g. globs: "**/*.ts") so Cursor auto-attaches it only for Laravel files.
4. Reload Cursor
Reload the Cursor window so the rule is loaded, then confirm it appears under Settings → Rules in your active context.
# Project-wide rule
cp laravel.cursorrules ./.cursorrules
# Or a scoped .mdc rule (auto-attaches by glob):
mkdir -p .cursor/rules
cat > .cursor/rules/laravel.mdc <<'EOF'
---
description: Laravel project conventions
globs: "**/*"
alwaysApply: false
---
# ...paste the rule body here...
EOFLaravel Cursor rules — frequently asked
What's the best Cursor rule for Laravel?
The best Laravel Cursor rule is the one that encodes your project's conventions — not a generic one-size-fits-all file. On RuleSell, Laravel rules are ranked by quality score (freshness, schema completeness, and review signals), so the top of this page is a defensible starting point. Open the highest-scored listing, then trim it to match your stack.
Where do Laravel .cursorrules files go?
Put a project-wide rule in a .cursorrules file at your repo root. For scoped rules, create .cursor/rules/laravel.mdc and attach it to the relevant file globs (for example **/*.ts) so Cursor only loads it when you're editing matching Laravel files. Commit both to git so your whole team gets the same context.
Do these Laravel rules work in Windsurf or Claude Code too?
Often, yes. A plain-markdown Laravel rule frequently works as-is in Windsurf (rename to .windsurfrules) and as project context for Claude Code (paste into CLAUDE.md). RuleSell dual-tags listings that are verified compatible across environments.
Are these Laravel Cursor rules free?
Yes — every listing is free to download during beta. Each Laravel rule keeps its original GitHub author attribution and SPDX license, so you always know the provenance. Paid publishing with creator payouts opens after beta.