general

A general set of coding rules for keeping source code consistent and readable. It covers naming, function size, error messages, composition, and removal of unused code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide everyday code changes, choose clear names, keep functions focused, write useful errors, and avoid dead code or unexplained constants.
Why use it?
Projects become harder to maintain when each change follows different conventions or hides important behavior. These rules give developers and coding agents a shared baseline.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/0xnyk/awesome-agent-cortex/general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xNyk/awesome-agent-cortex
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 82 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00082
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00041
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00016
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00008

Measured 2d ago against content hash 88323bee37c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general 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 2d 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.

cursorrules/rules/general.mdc · 14 lines

What it actually says

  • Follow existing code patterns and conventions
  • Use descriptive names that reveal intent
  • Keep functions small and focused (max ~50 lines)
  • Use early returns to reduce nesting
  • No magic numbers — use named constants
  • Remove unused imports and dead code
  • Write actionable error messages with context
  • Prefer composition over inheritance
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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 14 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 88323bee37c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository 0xNyk/awesome-agent-cortex (211 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 82 tokens. 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.