terraform-rules

terraform-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of file-based instructions for Cursor when working on Terraform, a tool that describes and manages cloud infrastructure as code. It covers providers, state, modules, plans, security, performance, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing Terraform modules, provider settings, state and backend configuration, or infrastructure plans.
Why use it?
It helps avoid invented provider settings, accidental version changes, and unsafe infrastructure plans. It makes the agent check the project's locked versions and existing structure first.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing Terraform modules, provider settings, state and backend configuration, or infrastructure plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beel-collab/presets.dev/terraform-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 1,002 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 $0.01002
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00401
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00100

Measured today against content hash 97427e6a80b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform-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/terraform/terraform-rules.mdc · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform Rules for Cursor: Providers, State and Plan Review

Install

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

Terraform Rules for Cursor: Providers, State and Plan Review

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

Updated for Terraform 1.17, Nov 2026

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

Stay on the Terraform version in .terraform-version or the CI image. Terraform 1.17 is the current line to write for when CI is already on it. Do not invent a provider argument. Read the locked provider schema. Required version constraints and the lock file are committed. Do not bump a provider because a plan failed on an unknown attribute you guessed.

Project shape

Modules have a small interface: variables, outputs, and resources. A root module wires providers and backends. A child module does not configure a backend. Names describe the resource, not main copied ten times.

State lives in the remote backend the project already uses, with locking. Do not commit terraform.tfstate. A local state file in a PR is a leak.

Changes

plan is the review artifact. apply and destroy are human actions. Do not run them from an agent turn. A -target apply is a last resort with a written reason.

Read the plan JSON or the plan output for replaces, destroys, and IAM changes. A force_new that replaces a database is a high-severity review, not a routine edit.

Security

IAM actions are the verbs the resource needs. Some AWS actions have no resource-level permission and the resource element must be "*". That star is not, by itself, a finding. A finding is a permission wider than the action requires: extra actions, a star on an action that does support resource ARNs, or 0.0.0.0/0 on an admin port.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 · 102 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 97427e6a80b1

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terraform-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 1,002 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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