A rule file for Cursor that connects an AI memory layer with instructions for helping another code repository use AI. Cursor is an AI coding editor, and the rules are written in Markdown without requiring code.

Use it to guide Cursor's session logs and to direct memory or AI-enablement work through the repository's protocol files.

It gives Cursor a defined way to decide whether it is managing its own memory or setting up AI instructions in another repository.

How acn-ericlaw/agent-memory configures Cursor

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to acn-ericlaw/agent-memory. 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/acn-ericlaw/agent-memory/main/.cursorrules

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acn-ericlaw/agent-memory

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 64 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 64 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

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00064	$0.00064
Opus 5.5	$0.00026	$0.00026
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00013
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00006

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ed49681465f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

windsurfrules — 95% identical, 2 lines differ

.cursorrules · 7 lines

What it actually says

agent-memory — both a shared AI memory layer and an AI-enablement / migration tool (no-code, markdown).

Follow memory/PROTOCOL.md first. AGENTS.md is its one-line universal discovery shim; the protocol selects internal-memory work versus AI-enabling another repository.

Identify yourself as Cursor in all session logs.

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 · 7 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ed49681465f7

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cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository acn-ericlaw/agent-memory (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

Building agents Deterministic Memory and context agent-memory near-zero-drift token-efficient vendor-neutral zero-code

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agent-memory: Cursor rule for Cursor