always-apply-string

A validation example for a rule file whose alwaysApply field has the wrong type: text instead of true or false.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test checks for invalid alwaysApply values in rule files.
Why use it?
It helps identify a configuration error that can stop a coding assistant from interpreting the rule correctly.

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/agent-sh/agnix/always-apply-string
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-sh/agnix

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 39 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 39 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00039 $0.00039
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00019
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00004

Measured yesterday against content hash d717b47fa3cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

always-apply-string 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.

tests/fixtures/cursor-invalid/.cursor/rules/always-apply-string.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

CUR-008: Invalid alwaysApply type

The alwaysApply field is a quoted string instead of a boolean.

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 · 8 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A d717b47fa3cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

always-apply-string is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository agent-sh/agnix (400 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.