From d9a13a37c6adcd7d018d00a269f99a578db85f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Soldevila <gerard.soldevila@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:10:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add .cursorignore file

---
 .cursorignore | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .cursorignore

diff --git a/.cursorignore b/.cursorignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3a8d62dd59ff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cursorignore
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# --- Artifacts & Build ---
+.chromium/
+.cursor/
+.es/
+.github/
+.native_modulees/
+.node_binaries/
+.vscode/
+.yarn-local-mirror
+build/
+data/
+# could be useful to gather context from 3rd party dependencies
+# node_modules/
+target/
+trash/
+*.log
+*.tmp
+*.codeql
+yarn.lock
+
+# Ignore binary assets
+**/*.gz
+**/*.tar.gz
+**/*.zip
+**/*.png
+**/*.jpg
+**/*.jpeg
+**/*.gif
+**/*.snap
+
+# Large JSON files
+x-pack/platform/plugins/private/translations/translations/**/*.json
+
+# we ignore repo documentation in favor of live, hosted docs
+# which can be injected using @Docs
+docs/
+dev_docs/

From c5f03fce76b7807fb8b6f5b6c8c051a4910a6504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Soldevila <gerard.soldevila@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:13:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Owned by tech-leads

---
 .github/CODEOWNERS | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 0df86b8ab5b02..1f30296eb5c03 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -3242,6 +3242,7 @@ x-pack/solutions/security/test/moon.yml @elastic/kibana-operations
 
 # Leads approval
 /AGENTS.md @elastic/kibana-tech-leads
+.cursorignore @elastic/kibana-tech-leads
 /.claude/ @elastic/kibana-tech-leads
 
 ####

From d38bb12b96ae59f4f433f8582778195c56801caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Soldevila <gerard.soldevila@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:31:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Not needed

---
 .cursorignore | 39 ++-------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.cursorignore b/.cursorignore
index 3a8d62dd59ff7..357bc2ff63ff9 100644
--- a/.cursorignore
+++ b/.cursorignore
@@ -1,37 +1,2 @@
-# --- Artifacts & Build ---
-.chromium/
-.cursor/
-.es/
-.github/
-.native_modulees/
-.node_binaries/
-.vscode/
-.yarn-local-mirror
-build/
-data/
-# could be useful to gather context from 3rd party dependencies
-# node_modules/
-target/
-trash/
-*.log
-*.tmp
-*.codeql
-yarn.lock
-
-# Ignore binary assets
-**/*.gz
-**/*.tar.gz
-**/*.zip
-**/*.png
-**/*.jpg
-**/*.jpeg
-**/*.gif
-**/*.snap
-
-# Large JSON files
-x-pack/platform/plugins/private/translations/translations/**/*.json
-
-# we ignore repo documentation in favor of live, hosted docs
-# which can be injected using @Docs
-docs/
-dev_docs/
+# Cursor already ignores the files and patterns defined in the .gitignore file
+# There is no need to create a dedicated .cursorignore file at the moment.

From e20faa9c75ce0a81439e2720a534122087030334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Soldevila <gerard.soldevila@elastic.co>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 09:27:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Improve comments on .cursorignore

---
 .cursorignore | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.cursorignore b/.cursorignore
index 357bc2ff63ff9..9b535d61c3345 100644
--- a/.cursorignore
+++ b/.cursorignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-# Cursor already ignores the files and patterns defined in the .gitignore file
-# There is no need to create a dedicated .cursorignore file at the moment.
+# Cursor already respects .gitignore.
+# We tried adding .cursorignore rules for binary files (e.g. images, zip archives, fonts);
+# index size was unchanged, so this file is left without those rules.