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.
npx agentmods add rules/alexsun1one/paper-operators/cursor-rulegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexsun1one/paper-operatorsWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00455 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00228 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00091 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
cursor-rule 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 3d 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.
What it actually says
Paper Operators
Use this rule when the user asks for article illustrations, blog figures, WeChat article images, explainer visuals, concept images, or image prompts.
Default to Chinese if the user writes Chinese.
Workflow:
- Identify the source anchor: the article sentence, paragraph, conflict, turn, claim, or feeling worth visualizing.
- State the reader takeaway in one sentence.
- Choose the domain and mood.
- Decide whether a folded-paper operator is necessary.
- Run the inclusion test: what breaks if the operator is removed?
- Choose a paper-world scene and core action.
- Use readable labels in the user's language.
- Produce the final image prompt or plan.
- QA for clarity, action, label readability, and style drift.
Visual DNA:
- 16:9 horizontal article body image by default.
- High-angle tabletop paper-model scene.
- Folded-paper people. The face is plain by default, or one simple hand-drawn expression (a few line strokes for brows/eyes and mouth, profile or three-quarter, looking at the work) when it encodes the operator's state (effort, focus, strain, relief, care). Keep it abstract to avoid the uncanny valley; never realistic, never head-on, never Xiaohei white-dot eyes.
- Tactile paper, labels, trays, frames, gates, paths, shelves, folders, scales, lenses, light cards.
- Stage relationships as deep 3D paper scenes (material arrangement + line/loop guidance + operator state), not flat paper-textured chart icons.
- Blue carrier ribbon/path when useful.
- Short readable labels by default.
- One sentence strip is allowed when it clarifies the takeaway.
Avoid generic mascots, robots, stick figures, stock infographic icons, PPT charts, Xiaohei-like black figures (black blob body, white-dot eyes), cute grins aimed at the reader, fake tiny text, and blank labels unless the user explicitly wants post-production overlay.
For the full portable guide, reference agent-guides/paper-operators-agent.md.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 40 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 153cf73b10fb
cursor-rule is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Alexsun1one/paper-operators (107 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 455 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.
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