tufte-visualization

A set of rules for analytical charts, tables, and dashboards based on Edward Tufte’s approach to clear visual communication. It focuses on showing data accurately while reducing unnecessary decoration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing visualizations, dashboards, comparisons, tables, or charts.
Why use it?
It helps prevent charts from hiding comparisons or exaggerating differences through poor design. It also guides choices such as data-ink use and avoiding chart clutter.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beettlle/cursorrules/tufte-visualization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beettlle/CursorRules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 4,400 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.04400
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02200
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00880
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00440

Measured 2d ago against content hash 93b9da37b188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tufte-visualization 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 2d ago.

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/rules/tufte-visualization.mdc · 437 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 437 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 93b9da37b188

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tufte-visualization is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository beettlle/CursorRules (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,400 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 2026-08-31.