checkpoint-regularly

checkpoint-regularly is a cursor rule for Cursor from arango-solutions/arango-sparql-py. It costs 272 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Git workflow rule that tells an agent to make commits and push them regularly. Git is the system used to record and share code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save completed features, passing tests, refactors, and session handoffs as separate pushed commits.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing work or leaving a large, hard-to-review set of changes. Regular commits also create safe points before risky edits or task changes.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to save completed features, passing tests, refactors, and session handoffs as separate pushed commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/arango-solutions/arango-sparql-py/checkpoint-regularly
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arango-solutions/arango-sparql-py

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 272 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 272 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00272 $0.00272
Opus 5.5 $0.00109 $0.00109
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 893fe6e76f50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkpoint-regularly 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 1mo 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/checkpoint-regularly.mdc · 45 lines

What it actually says

Checkpoint Regularly

"Commit early, push often, never lose work."

Large, uncommitted changesets are disasters waiting to happen.

Checkpoint Triggers

You MUST commit and push when:

Trigger Why
Feature complete Logical unit of work done
Tests passing Known-good state worth preserving
Before risky refactor Safety net if refactor fails
After ~30 minutes of work Time-based protection
Before switching tasks Clean handoff point
Before ending session Never leave work uncommitted

Git Discipline

Commit Messages

# GOOD: Descriptive, scoped
git commit -m "feat(wormhole): wire initializeCentroids to respect config"
git commit -m "fix(aboyeur): integrate createWorkItemsFromChecklist"

# BAD: Vague
git commit -m "updates"
git commit -m "wip"

Rules

  • One logical change per commit
  • If you can't describe it in one line, it's too big
  • Push immediately after every commit — push is free, losing work is expensive

Checkpoint. Push. Repeat.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 272 tokens per session scan A 893fe6e76f50

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checkpoint-regularly is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arango-solutions/arango-sparql-py (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 272 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-07.