debugging-standards

Rules for debugging and error handling in software. Debugging is the process of finding and fixing the cause of a problem, while error handling controls what happens when code fails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when reviewing code for leftover debug statements, empty catch blocks, descriptive logging, appropriate error levels, and isolated tests.
Why use it?
They help remove temporary output, prevent empty error handlers, and encourage logs and error messages that explain what happened.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules/debugging-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 263 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 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 8c057442c485, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-standards 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/rules/debugging-standards.mdc · 39 lines

What it actually says

Debugging Standards

Ensures proper debugging practices and error handling.

actions:

  • type: enforce conditions:

    • pattern: "console\.log\(|print_r\(|var_dump\(" message: "Replace debug statements with proper logging"

    • pattern: "catch\s*\([^)]\)\s\{\s*\}" message: "Implement proper error handling in catch blocks"

  • type: suggest message: | Debugging Best Practices:

    • Address root causes, not symptoms
    • Add descriptive logging messages
    • Create isolated test functions
    • Implement comprehensive error handling
    • Use appropriate logging levels
    • Add context to error messages
    • Consider debugging tools integration

metadata: priority: high version: 1.0

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. yesterday First seen · 39 lines · 263 tokens per session scan A 8c057442c485

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debugging-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 263 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 2026-08-31.