Cursor SEO Tools: Rules, Agent, and Skill Catalog (2026)

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Last updated: 27 September 2026

Cursor SEO tools are project rules plus the seoskillsai skill catalog inside Cursor, so Agent writes crawlable files instead of leaving the work in chat.

TLDR

• Project rules live in .cursor/rules as .mdc files. AGENTS.md is the plain-markdown alternative (Cursor rules).
• Rules are included at the start of the model context. They do not change Google’s ranking systems.
• This hub owns the catalog query. Article drafting stays on /cursor/seo-content. Store templates stay on /cursor/seo-ecommerce.
• First-party GSC (27 Aug–24 Sep 2026): /cursor had 36 impressions and 1 click at blended position ~33. seo skill for cursor showed 1 impression at position 10.
• Publish HTML. A rule file the crawler never fetches cannot rank (helpful content).

Contents

• What the catalog covers
• Where rules live
• Skill modules on this hub
• Pages that already own a query
• FAQ
• Related reading
• Sources

What the catalog covers

The parent list is the skills directory. This page is the Cursor slice: audit, content, ecommerce, schema, and GEO jobs you run with npx @seoskillsai/cli add cursor --all.

Cursor’s docs describe rules as persistent instructions for Agent. They are not a Search Console report and not a sitemap.

Where rules live

Kind	Where
Project rules	.cursor/rules/*.mdc
Plain instructions	AGENTS.md in the repo
User rules	Customize → Rules, all projects
Team rules	Team dashboard, Team and Enterprise

A plain .md file inside .cursor/rules is ignored. Project rules need the .mdc extension and frontmatter (rules).

npx @seoskillsai/cli add cursor --all

Put store and article constraints in those rule files, then let Agent edit the templates. The content recipe shows the article path.

Open the content recipe

Skill modules on this hub

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Job	Recipe URL
Technical audit	/cursor/seo-audit
Articles	/cursor/seo-content
Store templates	/cursor/seo-ecommerce
Schema	/cursor/seo-schema
GEO	/cursor/seo-geo

Audit, schema, and GEO rows are still templates. The content and ecommerce rows are already written. Do not repeat their H1s here.

Pages that already own a query

Query job	URL
Write articles in Cursor	/cursor/seo-content
Product HTML in Cursor	/cursor/seo-ecommerce
Sitemap method, any agent	/skills/seo-sitemap

First-party data gave this hub one click. That is not a reason to retitle the article page or the store page.

Open the skills directory

FAQ

What are Cursor SEO tools on this site?

Project rules plus the seoskillsai modules you install with npx @seoskillsai/cli add cursor --all.

Where do I put project rules?

In .cursor/rules as .mdc files, or in AGENTS.md if you want plain markdown.

Does a rule file rank by itself?

No. Rules steer Agent. Google indexes the HTML you publish.

Should this hub replace the article recipe?

No. /cursor/seo-content already targets article drafting. This URL is the catalog.

Which skill is still a template?

/cursor/seo-schema and /cursor/seo-geo are still templates. The audit, content, and ecommerce recipes are already authored.

Related reading

• Skills directory
• Cursor audit recipe
• Content recipe
• Ecommerce recipe
• Sitemap method

Sources

• Cursor rules
• Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content