van-platform-detection

A process for identifying the operating system and adapting file paths and commands for Windows, macOS, or Linux.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before running platform-dependent work to select the right paths, commands, and verification checkpoints.
Why use it?
It reduces failures caused by using the wrong path separators or shell commands on a developer's machine.

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/alkoleft/platform-context-exporter/van-platform-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alkoleft/platform-context-exporter

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 414 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00041

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1d3ddf918b3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

van-platform-detection 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to van-platform-detection — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/isolation_rules/visual-maps/van_mode_split/van-platform-detection.mdc · 50 lines

What it actually says

VAN MODE: PLATFORM DETECTION

TL;DR: Detects the OS, determines path separators, and notes command adaptations required.

🌐 PLATFORM DETECTION PROCESS

graph TD
    PD["Platform Detection"] --> CheckOS["Detect Operating System"]
    CheckOS --> Win["Windows"]
    CheckOS --> Mac["macOS"]
    CheckOS --> Lin["Linux"]
    
    Win & Mac & Lin --> Adapt["Adapt Commands<br>for Platform"]
    
    Win --> WinPath["Path: Backslash (\\)"]
    Mac --> MacPath["Path: Forward Slash (/)"]
    Lin --> LinPath["Path: Forward Slash (/)"]
    
    Win --> WinCmd["Command Adaptations:<br>dir, icacls, etc."]
    Mac --> MacCmd["Command Adaptations:<br>ls, chmod, etc."]
    Lin --> LinCmd["Command Adaptations:<br>ls, chmod, etc."]
    
    WinPath & MacPath & LinPath --> PathCP["Path Separator<br>Checkpoint"]
    WinCmd & MacCmd & LinCmd --> CmdCP["Command<br>Checkpoint"]
    
    PathCP & CmdCP --> PlatformComplete["Platform Detection<br>Complete"]
    
    style PD fill:#4da6ff,stroke:#0066cc,color:white
    style PlatformComplete fill:#10b981,stroke:#059669,color:white

📋 CHECKPOINT VERIFICATION TEMPLATE (Example)

✓ SECTION CHECKPOINT: PLATFORM DETECTION
- Operating System Detected? [YES/NO]
- Path Separator Confirmed? [YES/NO]
- Command Adaptations Noted? [YES/NO]

→ If all YES: Platform Detection Complete.
→ If any NO: Resolve before proceeding.

Next Step: Load and process van-file-verification.mdc.

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. 3d ago First seen · 50 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1d3ddf918b3e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

van-platform-detection is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository alkoleft/platform-context-exporter (48 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 414 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to van-platform-detection, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.