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Cursor rules Cooling
On TutorHero's Everything Index, Cursor rules is cooling on GitHub: 0.05 of every 10,000 new public repos over the last three months (43 a month), +194% vs a year ago.
Since 2019, and the range to 2032
New repos per 10,000 (3-month average, log scale)12-month forecastRange to 2032: middle half and 90% of past similar lines
The range is not a forecast of this line: it is what GitHub lines in the same state (n/a) did 1 to 5 years later, 2019 to 2026, applied to today's level. Past 5 years it is stretched, not measured. Checked out of time (learned before 2022, scored after), 71% of outcomes landed inside the 90% range, so read it as wide. Open it in the Everything chart.
Week by week
New public repos with the cursor-rules tag each week (Monday to Sunday, UTC). The outlined bars, last week included, are still filling in, as tags are often added days after a repo is created, so their height will grow a little. "Against the field" divides the change by what the typical tag did, so a wave that lifts every tag does not count. Hover for the numbers.
Built vs talked about
Each line is its own share (of all new GitHub repos, all Hacker News stories, all English Wikipedia views, all new stars on the repos we track), shown as a share of its own peak, so the timing and shape compare even though the units differ. Hover for the counts. Tap a name to hide or show a line.
What it means
- Learn the ideas more than the name: Cursor rules is cooling, -48% below its May 2026 high.
- Start by reading DietrichGebert/ponytail (+31.0k stars in 3 months) and jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh (+943 stars in 3 months).
- People to follow: DietrichGebert, Seth Hobson.
- Builders and attention both rising: new repos +194%, attention +164% in a year.
- 258 new stars per new repo over 3 months, vs 8.50 for the typical trend: more demand per project than most fields.
- Attention: 1.75% of new stars on the repos we track, +164% in a year.
- Hacker News: 0 stories a month, -100% share in a year.
- Not investment advice: this measures what people build on GitHub, not any company.
- Most-starred tools here lately: DietrichGebert/ponytail (vouched), jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh (organic stars).
- Check that a tool is still maintained before you adopt it: the field is shrinking.
Repos carrying it now
People building it
DietrichGebertCreating ponytail, a tool that makes AI agents write less code.Influence 77
Seth HobsonBuilding agentic plugin marketplaces and financial MCP servers.Influence 75More in Agent skills and rules
Questions
Is Cursor rules growing on GitHub?
Yes. Its share of all new public GitHub repos is +194% vs a year ago and -44% over the last three months (Sep 2026). Phase: Cooling.
How many new Cursor rules repos are created each month?
About 43 new public repos a month carry the cursor-rules tag (three-month average to Sep 2026), or 0.05 of every 10,000 new repos.
What will Cursor rules look like in 2032?
Not enough history for a range yet.
Not investment advice. Measurements of what people build and star on GitHub, a statistical forecast, base rates and a model's reading of them. Nothing here is about any company's revenue, valuation or stock.