docker-rules

docker-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Cursor instructions for Docker projects, covering container images, runtime users, build secrets, errors, security, performance, and tests. Docker packages an application and its dependencies into containers that run in a consistent environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, container users, image bases, Compose settings, and build-time credentials.
Why use it?
It helps the coding assistant preserve pinned tool versions, keep build-only files out of runtime images, and avoid exposing secrets during builds.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it when changing Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, container users, image bases, Compose settings, and build-time credentials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beel-collab/presets.dev/docker-rules
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/beel-collab/presets.dev

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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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 987 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00987
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00395
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00099

Measured today against content hash ea0c728cbbd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-rules 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 today.

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/docker/docker-rules.mdc · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docker Rules for Cursor: Images, Runtime Users and Build Secrets

Install

Install the native export at .cursor/rules/docker-rules.mdc. Copy that export, not this catalog file. Catalog fields such as tools and author are for presets.dev. Install one skill file per name. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and Devin can all read .agents/skills, so a second copy with the same name collides.

Docker Rules for Cursor: Images, Runtime Users and Build Secrets

File-scoped Cursor rule for Docker. It attaches when a matching file is in context.

Updated for Docker Engine 29, Nov 2026

Do not upgrade dependencies or the framework version unless the task asks.

Keep Engine, BuildKit, and Compose versions as the project already pins them. Engine 29 is the current major to write for when the host is already on it. Do not assume a Compose feature from a newer file works on an older plugin. Read the existing Dockerfile before you add a stage.

Image shape

A multi-stage build compiles in one stage and copies the artifact into a small runtime stage. The runtime stage does not include the compiler, the package manager cache, or the tests. Pin the base image by digest or by a version tag the project already updates on purpose. Do not use latest.

.dockerignore excludes .git, secrets, and local env files. A COPY . . of a context that contains .env bakes the secret into a layer.

Build secrets and runtime

A secret needed at build time uses a BuildKit secret mount. It does not use ARG or ENV for a token, because those stay in history. The final image does not contain the secret file.

The runtime process has a USER that is not root. Files it writes live in a directory that user owns. A healthcheck hits the app's ready endpoint. The process handles SIGTERM so a stop is not a kill ten seconds later.

Compose and privileges

Compose declares the same user, a read-only root filesystem when the app can live with it, and no extra capabilities. Do not mount /var/run/docker.sock into an application container. Do not set privileged: true to fix a permission error. Fix the user or the volume.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. today First seen · 98 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ea0c728cbbd5

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docker-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 987 tokens. 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 2026-11-13.

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