cursorrules

Rules for prefixing shell commands with RTK, a tool that shortens command output while keeping its meaning. It also lists RTK forms for Git, file search, tests, builds, and other tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever running shell commands such as checking Git changes, searching files, running tests, or inspecting build errors.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of terminal output an agent must read, making command results easier to handle.

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/agentsystemlabs/launch-pad/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentSystemLabs/launch-pad

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 428 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 428 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00428 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00214 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00086 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00043 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash d321ef8092ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

cursorrules scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- headroom:rtk-instructions -->
.cursorrules · 43 lines

What it actually says

RTK (Rust Token Killer) - Token-Optimized Commands

When running shell commands, always prefix with rtk. This reduces context usage by 60-90% with zero behavior change. If rtk has no filter for a command, it passes through unchanged — so it is always safe to use.

Key Commands

# Git (59-80% savings)
rtk git status          rtk git diff            rtk git log

# Files & Search (60-75% savings)
rtk ls <path>           rtk read <file>         rtk grep <pattern>
rtk find <pattern>      rtk diff <file>

# Test (90-99% savings) — shows failures only
rtk pytest tests/       rtk cargo test          rtk test <cmd>

# Build & Lint (80-90% savings) — shows errors only
rtk tsc                 rtk lint                rtk cargo build
rtk prettier --check    rtk mypy                rtk ruff check

# Analysis (70-90% savings)
rtk err <cmd>           rtk log <file>          rtk json <file>
rtk summary <cmd>       rtk deps                rtk env

# GitHub (26-87% savings)
rtk gh pr view <n>      rtk gh run list         rtk gh issue list

# Infrastructure (85% savings)
rtk docker ps           rtk kubectl get         rtk docker logs <c>

# Package managers (70-90% savings)
rtk pip list            rtk pnpm install        rtk npm run <script>

Rules

  • In command chains, prefix each segment: rtk git add . && rtk git commit -m "msg"
  • For debugging, use raw command without rtk prefix
  • rtk proxy <cmd> runs command without filtering but tracks usage
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 · 43 lines · 428 tokens per session scan C d321ef8092ae

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cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository AgentSystemLabs/launch-pad (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 428 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.