tell-mission

tell-mission is a cursor rule for Cursor from ashishpatill/tell-proof. It costs 367 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of always-applied project rules for Tell, a product that captures, diagnoses, and art-directs interface quality. The rules cover product behavior, model responsibilities, data validation, and fallback behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide work on Tell’s UI, detectors, MCP and web responses, schemas, model routing, fixtures, and project-specific agent workflows.
Why use it?
They keep the agent aligned with the project’s goals and safety constraints, including human review before fixes are applied.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Cursor.

Good fit They guide work on Tell’s UI, detectors, MCP and web responses, schemas, model routing, fixtures, and project-specific agent workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ashishpatill/tell-proof/tell-mission
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/ashishpatill/tell-proof

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 367 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 367 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 $0.00367 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00183 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00073 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00037 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash 69c5fb79e8e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tell-mission 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 8d 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/tell-mission.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

Tell — always apply

Read USER_STORY.md: we build for Ashish (solo founder, AI-built UI looks generic, demo tomorrow).

Golden rules

  1. Product = capture -> diagnose -> art-direct -> reconcile; the report serves the loop, not a dashboard.
  2. Deterministic through capture, fingerprint, detection, and baseline reconciliation; LLM only in taste, voice refinement, or enhanced diff paths.
  3. Never auto-apply fixes. MCP/web returns patches; a human or Cursor agent reviews and applies.
  4. Zod schemas at every package/API/MCP boundary via @tell/schema.
  5. Tell's own UI must dogfood the detector rules: tokens, state coverage, contrast, no generic SaaS tells.
  6. Preserve demo reliability: live path first, committed fixture/report fallback always works.

Model routing (see ORCHESTRATION.md)

  • Composer 2.5 — orchestrate, UI, MCP, fixtures
  • Opus 4.8 — schema, detectors, taste engine
  • GPT 5.5 — user copy, demo narrative

Delegate to subagents

.cursor/agents/ — 11 role-specific agents. Use proactively by feature area.

Project skills

.cursor/skills/ — feature workflows. Invoke with @skill-name or let Cursor auto-attach.

Website builds auto-trigger research: always-applied rule tell-domain-research + engine routeSkills prepends website-domain-research (and sport-matchday-web when sport). Agents must execute LoadPrior → gap → walkthrough if needed → IA → training emit before pixels.

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. 8d ago First seen · 33 lines · 367 tokens per session scan A 69c5fb79e8e0

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tell-mission is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ashishpatill/tell-proof (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 367 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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.