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May 25, 2026 9:02 AM
Building Better .NET Worker Services with Cursor Rules
π Recently, I started building my own Cursor rule set for creating .NET Core Background Worker projects.
The goal is simple:
Teach AI to generate not just βworking codeβ, but production-ready architecture from the start.
Now, every new Worker Service automatically includes:
β Clean Architecture
β BackgroundService pattern
β Serilog logging
β Docker support
β HealthChecks
β IOptions pattern
β Graceful shutdown
β Retry policies with Polly
One rule that made a huge difference π
Do not consider
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The goal is simple:
Teach AI to generate not just βworking codeβ, but production-ready architecture from the start.
Now, every new Worker Service automatically includes:
β Clean Architecture
β BackgroundService pattern
β Serilog logging
β Docker support
β HealthChecks
β IOptions pattern
β Graceful shutdown
β Retry policies with Polly
One rule that made a huge difference π
Do not consider