mcp-rules

mcp-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Cursor instructions for MCP servers, covering tools, data schemas, permissions, errors, security, performance, and tests. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a standard way for AI clients to call tools provided by a server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or changing MCP tools, server connections, schemas, transports, and access controls.
Why use it?
It helps avoid mixing incompatible protocol versions and keeps tool inputs, outputs, and permissions explicit.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when building or changing MCP tools, server connections, schemas, transports, and access controls.

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

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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 1,872 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 $0.01872
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00749
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00187

Measured today against content hash 7a106da71e0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-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/mcp/mcp-rules.mdc · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Rules for Cursor: Tools, Schemas and Permissions

Install

Install the native export at .cursor/rules/mcp-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.

MCP Rules for Cursor: Tools, Schemas and Permissions

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

Updated for the 2026-07-28 MCP spec, Nov 2026

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

The spec this file follows is the 2026-07-28 revision. @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.32.2 is still the v1 package on npm, and a server that calls server.connect(new StdioServerTransport()) or hands requests to a Streamable HTTP transport from that package speaks the 2025-era protocol only. A client pinned to 2026-07-28 cannot complete a session with it.

To serve 2026-07-28, use the v2 packages. @modelcontextprotocol/server 2.4.0 and @modelcontextprotocol/client 2.4.0 are the v2 packages that speak this revision. Import McpServer and createMcpHandler from @modelcontextprotocol/server. Import serveStdio from @modelcontextprotocol/server/stdio. Pass a factory that constructs a new McpServer on each call. A handler that receives Node IncomingMessage imports its HTTP transport from @modelcontextprotocol/node. Read the installed package names before editing. Leave a v1 server on v1 unless the task is the move to v2, and do not import @modelcontextprotocol/core-internal.

What this revision removed

The 2026-07-28 revision is stateless. There is no initialize / notifications/initialized handshake and no Mcp-Session-Id header. Every request carries its protocol version and client capabilities in _meta (io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion, io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities). Servers identify themselves on each result the same way. A version mismatch is UnsupportedProtocolVersionError.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7a106da71e0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-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 1,872 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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