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As a tangent, one issue I face is how to force cursor to use uv over pip. I have placed it in rules and also explicitly add a rules.yml file in every agent conversation. It still tries to push through pip 4 out of 10 times. Any recommendations on best practice to force cursor to use uv will make a significant dent in productivity

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more of a bandaid than anything else, but maybe something like this might help:

alias pip='echo "do not use pip, use uv instead" && false'

You can put that in your bashrc or zshrc. There's a way to detect if it's a cursor shell to only apply the alias in this case, but I can't remember how off the top of my head!

> alias pip='echo "do not use pip, use uv instead" && false'

Interesting times, eh?

Who (who!) would have told us all we'd be aliasing terminal commands to *natural language* instructions - for machine consumption, I means. Not for the dumb intern ...

(I am assuming that must have happened at some point - ie. having a verboten command echo "here be dragons" to the PFY ...)

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