python-rules

python-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file-aware instructions for Python projects, including environments, type annotations, and pytest. Python is a general-purpose programming language, and pytest is a tool for running tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Python packages, scripts, public functions, types, or pytest tests.
Why use it?
It helps an agent use the project's existing package setup and commands instead of inventing environments or ignoring its type and test conventions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when changing Python packages, scripts, public functions, types, or pytest tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beel-collab/presets.dev/python-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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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,197 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 $0.01197
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00479
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00120

Measured today against content hash fcd95431913c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-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/python/python-rules.mdc · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python Rules for Cursor: Environments, Types and pytest

Install

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

Python Rules for Cursor: Environments, Types and pytest

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

Updated for uv 0.13.7 and Ruff 0.17.4, Nov 2026

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

Project shape

Read pyproject.toml and the lockfile first. The package layout is either a src/ tree or a flat package. Follow the one that exists. Tests live where the project already puts them, usually tests/.

Entry points, scripts, and the test command come from the project config. Run them with uv run when uv owns the project. Do not invent a virtualenv beside an existing .venv.

Types and boundaries

Type public functions and the data that crosses a process or a network. Prefer a typed model the project already uses, such as a dataclass or a Pydantic model, over a bare dict. Any is a hole. Use it only at a boundary you cannot name yet, and keep it off the return type.

Check optional values before you attribute them. A # type: ignore needs the error code and a reason. Do not blanket-ignore a file.

Errors and I/O

Raise a specific exception the caller can catch. Do not except Exception and then pass. Add context with raise ... from exc when you translate an error.

Async functions do not call time.sleep, requests, or other blocking I/O. Use the async client the project already has. A sync library stays in a thread only when the project already does that and the call is bounded.

Close files and HTTP responses. A with block is the default.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fcd95431913c

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python-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 1,197 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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