# Cursor Optimization Wave Summary (2026-04-03)

**Last Updated:** 2026-04-03

## Scope Executed

1. Wave 1 reliability hardening completed
2. Wave 2 overlap reduction completed
3. Wave 3 SSOT/archive cleanup completed
4. Wave 4 indexing scope tuning and benchmark refresh completed

## KPI Deltas

Baseline reference: `docs/ai/CURSOR_OPTIMIZATION_BASELINE.json`

- `rules_count`: `128` (unchanged)
- `always_apply_count`: `1` (target preserved)
- `rules_without_globs`: `17` (unchanged)
- `skill_broken_rule_refs`: `0` (improved and stable)
- `exact_glob_overlap_count`: `56 → 50` (reduced after compare/API overlap consolidation)
- Indexing noise reduction: **~9.34 MB** known generated artifacts excluded (plus wildcard tool-data exclusions)

## Quality/Safety Verification

All passed:

- `make cursor-integrity`
- `make cursor-benchmark`
- `make cursorignore-audit`

Golden-task regression evidence:

- `docs/ai/CURSOR_GOLDEN_TASK_RESULTS.md`

## Additional Next-Step Pass Executed (Same Day)

1. Blog JSON overlap reduction (safe advisory scope narrowing)
- `blog-backup.mdc`, `blog-content-creation-gate.mdc`, `blog-full-rework-decision.mdc`, and `ordio-promotion-contextual.mdc` no longer blanket-match all `v2/data/blog/posts/**/*.json` edits.

2. Dashboard/admin overlap consolidation
- `seo-dashboard-admin.mdc` converted to pointer/docs scope.
- Runtime dashboard routing now centered in `dashboard.mdc`.
- Added archive preservation doc: `docs/ai/rules-archive/seo-dashboard-admin-full.md`.

3. Benchmark delta after next-step pass
- `exact_glob_overlap_count`: `50 → 48`.

## Remaining Work (Optional Future Pass)

1. Evaluate further intentional overlap in blog runtime rules while preserving JSON safety guardrails.
2. Keep wave-based regression checks for each further reduction.