What is cursor_latex_template CLAUDE.md?

A set of project instructions and setup scripts for editing LaTeX documents with Cursor. LaTeX is a text-based system for preparing documents such as research papers.

Configuring Cursor to help draft papers, edit `.tex` files, preserve LaTeX syntax, and follow the project's writing conventions.

It gives the coding assistant consistent rules for clear scientific writing and correct LaTeX changes.

How yang3kc/cursor_latex_template configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to yang3kc/cursor_latex_template. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yang3kc/cursor_latex_template/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yang3kc/cursor_latex_template

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 619 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 619 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00619	$0.00619
Opus 5.5	$0.00248	$0.00248
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00124	$0.00124
Haiku 4.5	$0.00062	$0.00062

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6dee9abf6b7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor_latex_template CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This is a LaTeX template repository designed to configure Cursor for LaTeX document editing. The repository provides installation scripts and Cursor rules to enable LLM-assisted LaTeX editing.

Key Components

Cursor Rules for LaTeX

The main configuration is in .cursor/rules/latex-instructions.mdc, which instructs AI assistants to:

Act as a scientific writing assistant for drafting papers
Focus on clarity, conciseness, and coherence while maintaining technical accuracy
Use formal but accessible tone
Follow LaTeX syntax when making changes
Start a new line for each sentence in LaTeX files
Write in full sentences and avoid bullet points

This rule applies only to *.tex files (alwaysApply: false, globs: *.tex).

Installation System

The repository uses a two-script installation system:

install.sh: Installs init_cursor_latex as a system-wide command
- Creates a symlink in the specified installation path (e.g., /usr/local/bin)
- Makes init_cursor_latex.sh executable
- Usage: ./install.sh /path/to/installation
init_cursor_latex.sh: Copies Cursor configuration to LaTeX projects
- Copies .cursor/rules/ directory to target project
- Copies .gitignore file for LaTeX projects
- Preserves existing files (uses cp -n flag)
- Resolves symlinks to find source files
- Usage: Run in the target LaTeX project directory

Common Tasks

Installing the tool system-wide

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh /usr/local/bin  # or any directory in your PATH

Setting up a new LaTeX project

cd /path/to/your/latex/project
init_cursor_latex

Running scripts without installation

# From anywhere
bash /path/to/this/repo/init_cursor_latex.sh

Integration with Overleaf

This template supports working with Overleaf via Git integration. Users can clone Overleaf projects locally, work with Cursor, and push changes back to Overleaf's remote repository.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 619 tokens per session scan A 6dee9abf6b7a

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cursor_latex_template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yang3kc/cursor_latex_template (38 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 619 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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