react-rules

react-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file-aware instructions for building React interfaces with components, state, and effects. React is a JavaScript library for creating user interfaces from reusable pieces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing React components, shared state, event handling, effects, and component tests.
Why use it?
It helps an agent keep component responsibilities clear and avoid common mistakes with state, derived values, effects, and data loading.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when creating or changing React components, shared state, event handling, effects, and component tests.

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

Getting it into your agent

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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 1,298 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 $0.01298
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00519
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00130

Measured today against content hash 459f4e015c28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-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/react/react-rules.mdc · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React Rules for Cursor: Components, State and Effects

Install

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

React Rules for Cursor: Components, State and Effects

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

Updated for React 19.3.1, Nov 2026

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

Project shape

Build the tree from function components. One component owns one job. Put shared UI in the folder the project already uses. Colocate a component's test next to it when that is the local pattern.

Props are the input. State is what this component owns. Derived values are computed while rendering. A parent owns state that two children must share.

State and rendering

Set state in response to an event or a completed request. Compute fullName from first and last during render. An effect that copies props into state goes stale and renders twice.

Use a functional update when the next state depends on the previous one. Include every reactive value a hook callback reads, or restructure so the callback does not close over a changing value.

Lists need a stable id as key. Index keys break when the list is reordered, filtered, or inserted into.

Effects

Effects synchronize with an external system: a subscription, a timer, a widget outside React. Return a cleanup that cancels the subscription or the timer. Do not fetch in an effect when the framework already loads data in a server component or a router loader. If the project does fetch in effects, abort on cleanup and ignore a response that arrives after unmount.

Strict Mode runs setup and cleanup an extra time in development. A cleanup that is missing will show up there. Do not "fix" that by disabling Strict Mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 459f4e015c28

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react-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 1,298 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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