no-em-dashes

no-em-dashes is a cursor rule for Cursor from anishfyi/trove. It costs 135 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing rule that forbids em dashes and en dashes in content for the Trove repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing readmes, documentation, comments, commit messages, and pull request text in that repository.
Why use it?
It keeps repository text consistent with the project's punctuation standard.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .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/anishfyi/trove/no-em-dashes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anishfyi/trove

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.

agentmods badge for no-em-dashes

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/anishfyi/trove/no-em-dashes.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/anishfyi/trove/no-em-dashes)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/anishfyi/trove/no-em-dashes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/anishfyi/trove/no-em-dashes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 135 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 135 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 5.1 $0.00135 $0.00135
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0ea736ac0f68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-em-dashes 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 5d 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.

.cursor/rules/no-em-dashes.mdc · 16 lines

What it actually says

No em-dashes

Never use em-dashes (U+2014) or en-dashes (U+2013) anywhere in this repository.

Use instead:

  • Hyphen - for compound words and ranges (e.g. L0-L6, v0.2.0)
  • Colon : after labels (e.g. **L1 Symbols**: functions)
  • Commas or periods for clause breaks

This applies to README, docs, site copy, comments, commit messages, and PR text.

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. 5d ago First seen · 16 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 0ea736ac0f68

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no-em-dashes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository anishfyi/trove (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.