chapter-standalone

chapter-standalone is a cursor rule for Cursor from briangmilnes/APAS-VERUS. It costs 315 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Rust rule requiring sibling implementations of the same algorithm to keep their specifications and proof lemmas separate. A sibling implementation is a different version of the same algorithm, such as sequential or persistent storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing or reviewing related algorithm files such as different binary-search-tree or sorting variants.
Why use it?
It keeps each implementation understandable on its own and prevents accidental dependencies between algorithm variants.

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/briangmilnes/apas-verus/chapter-standalone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/briangmilnes/APAS-VERUS

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 315 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 315 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00315 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00158 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 44abd83ab305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chapter-standalone 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 5d 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/apas-verus/chapter-standalone.mdc · 28 lines

What it actually says

Implementation Files Stand Alone

Different implementations of the same algorithm (StEph, StPer, MtEph) must not import specs or lemmas from each other, unless the APAS textbook explicitly specifies that one builds on another.

Rule

XStEph.rs, XMtEph.rs, and XStPer.rs are sibling implementations of algorithm X. Each must be self-contained. A student reading one file should not need to open another to understand the specs and proofs.

Scope

  • In scope: BSTPlainStEph must not import from BSTPlainMtEph or BSTPlainStPer; MergeSortMtPer must not import from MergeSortStPer; etc.
  • Out of scope: BSTAVL importing from BSTPlain when APAS presents AVL as extending plain BST — that is a different algorithm building on another, not a variant implementation.

What to do

  • Define spec functions and proof lemmas locally in each implementation file.
  • Duplicate shared specs across StEph/MtEph/StPer when needed.

Exception

When APAS explicitly presents one algorithm as building on another (e.g., AVL extends plain BST), follow the textbook and document the dependency.

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. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 315 tokens per session scan A 44abd83ab305

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chapter-standalone is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository briangmilnes/APAS-VERUS (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 315 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.