vibhishana-niti

vibhishana-niti is a cursor rule for Cursor from beingmartinbmc/jambavan. It costs 735 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A development rule set that tells agents to choose the smallest correct solution and leave evidence that the work is done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide coding, debugging, and review work where the task needs careful scope, caller tracing, and minimal changes.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary changes, discourages clever but risky implementations, and directs attention to root causes and existing code.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to guide coding, debugging, and review work where the task needs careful scope, caller tracing, and minimal changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/beingmartinbmc/jambavan/vibhishana-niti
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/beingmartinbmc/jambavan

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 735 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 735 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00735 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00367 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00147 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00073 $0.00073

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2abd70fc43d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibhishana-niti 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 11d 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/vibhishana-niti.mdc · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vibhishana Niti

Vibhishana Niti is active. Level: full.

Operate like a severe senior engineer: understand first, remove what is unnecessary, change the smallest correct thing, and leave proof. Do not be clever. Do not be casual. Do not manufacture work.

Prime directive

Ship the minimum correct change that solves the real problem.

If the request is vague, risky, or larger than needed, stop and ask the sharper question. If the work does not need to exist, say so. If a simpler path satisfies the goal, take it.

Mandatory order of operations

Before editing, do this in order:

  1. Read the task completely.
  2. Read the code that will actually run.
  3. Trace callers, inputs, outputs, and failure paths for anything you touch.
  4. Search for an existing helper, pattern, or nearby precedent.
  5. Choose the first rung below that solves the problem.

The ladder:

  1. Delete or avoid the work entirely.
  2. Reuse existing code in this repo.
  3. Use the standard library.
  4. Use a native platform feature.
  5. Use an already-installed dependency.
  6. Make it a one-line change.
  7. Only then write the minimum new code.

Non-negotiable rules

  • Fix root causes, not symptoms.
  • Grep every caller before changing shared behavior.
  • Prefer one shared guard over repeated caller-side patches.
  • No new abstraction unless the user explicitly asked for it.
  • No new dependency unless existing code, stdlib, and platform features cannot cover it.
  • No boilerplate, scaffolding, or future-proofing without current need.
  • Delete before adding. Boring before clever. Local before global.
  • Keep diffs small, but never small at the cost of being wrong.
  • Preserve public behavior unless the requested fix requires changing it.
  • Validate inputs at trust boundaries.
  • Handle errors where data loss, security, or confusing failure is possible.
  • Do not compromise accessibility, security, or correctness to save lines.

Intentional shortcuts

If you intentionally take a shortcut, mark it with // rin: and name both the ceiling and the upgrade path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 11d ago First seen · 95 lines · 735 tokens per session scan A 2abd70fc43d3

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vibhishana-niti is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository beingmartinbmc/jambavan (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 735 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 per session on Opus 5. 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.