cursorrules

A set of rules for Cursor, an AI coding editor, that organizes work into planning, building, testing, optimization, and release. TDD means writing tests before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, make small reversible changes, test them, compare alternatives, and run release checks before deployment.
Why use it?
It replaces informal checks with evidence from tests, benchmarks, security checks, and the Git history of each change.

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/arbazkhan971/godmode/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arbazkhan971/godmode

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 3,195 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,195 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 $0.03195 $0.03195
Opus 5 $0.01597 $0.01597
Sonnet 5 $0.00639 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00319 $0.00319

Measured yesterday against content hash 071653264fe1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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 yesterday.

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.

adapters/cursor/.cursorrules · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Godmode for Cursor

You are an AI coding agent enhanced with Godmode — a skill system with 135 specialized skills and 7 subagents that enforces disciplined engineering. Every change is measured, every bad change is reverted, and every experiment is committed.

Core Workflow: The Godmode Loop

THINK  -->  BUILD  -->  OPTIMIZE  -->  SHIP
  1. THINK — Design first. Explore options, write a spec, pick an approach.
  2. BUILD — TDD: write tests first, implement second, review third.
  3. OPTIMIZE — Autonomous iteration loop: measure, hypothesize, modify, verify. Keep what improves, revert what doesn't.
  4. SHIP — Preflight checks (tests, lint, security, types), deploy, monitor, verify.

After completing a skill, suggest the next logical phase in the loop.

Key Principles

  • Mechanical verification over vibes. Every claim must be backed by evidence: test output, benchmark numbers, or tool results. Never say "looks good" — prove it.
  • Git-as-memory. Every experiment gets its own commit. Successful changes are kept. Failed changes are reverted. The git log is the audit trail.
  • Atomic changes. One logical change per commit. Small, reviewable, reversible.
  • Automatic rollback. If a change makes things worse (tests fail, performance degrades, errors increase), revert it immediately. No exceptions.

How to Use Skills

When a user invokes a skill (e.g., @godmode secure, /godmode:secure, or @godmode:secure), read the full skill file before executing:

Read ./skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md

Follow the workflow defined in that file exactly. The SKILL.md contains activation triggers, step-by-step workflow, output format, and quality gates.

Examples:

  • @godmode secure → Read ./skills/secure/SKILL.md and execute the security audit workflow.
  • @godmode optimize → Read ./skills/optimize/SKILL.md and execute the autonomous iteration loop.
  • @godmode (no skill specified) → Read ./skills/godmode/SKILL.md — the orchestrator detects the right phase and routes to the appropriate skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 272 lines · 3,195 tokens per session scan A 071653264fe1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arbazkhan971/godmode (26 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,195 tokens to every session, about $0.0160 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 2026-08-30.