02-pattern-discovery

02-pattern-discovery is a cursor rule for Cursor from bybren-llc/a-safe-pulse. It costs 687 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of 02-pattern-discovery, MIT.

A mandatory pattern-discovery rule for finding similar specifications, implementations, and reusable code patterns before writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementation to search specifications, the pattern library, and the codebase for examples covering APIs, interfaces, databases, testing, security, deployment, and configuration.
Why use it?
It helps avoid duplicating existing solutions and makes new work follow established project conventions.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .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/bybren-llc/a-safe-pulse/02-pattern-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bybren-llc/a-safe-pulse

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 687 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 687 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00687 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00344 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00069 $0.00069

Measured yesterday against content hash d2a4837ffb95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

02-pattern-discovery 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to 02-pattern-discovery — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/02-pattern-discovery.mdc · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pattern Discovery Protocol (MANDATORY)

Before writing ANY code, you MUST complete pattern discovery. This is not optional.

Step 0: Search Specs Directory (FIRST)

# Find similar implementations in specs
ls specs/*-spec.md

# Review SAFe user stories for related work
grep -r "As a.*I want to" specs/

# Check patterns referenced by past specs
cat specs/ASP-XXX-similar-spec.md

Step 1: Search Pattern Library

Check patterns_library/ for an existing pattern that fits your use case.

Available categories:

Category Path Contents
API patterns_library/api/ User context, admin, webhooks, Zod
UI docs/archive/harness-upstream/patterns-ui/ (archived) Authenticated pages, forms, tables
Database patterns_library/database/ RLS migration, SQL transactions
Testing patterns_library/testing/ API integration tests
Security patterns_library/security/ Input sanitization, rate limiting
CI patterns_library/ci/ GitHub Actions, deployment pipeline
Config patterns_library/config/ Environment config, logging

See patterns_library/README.md for the full index of 18+ patterns.

Step 2: Search Codebase

# Search for similar functionality
grep -r "feature_name" app/ lib/ components/

# Find existing helpers
ls lib/
grep -r "helper_pattern" lib/

# Check for existing components
grep -r "ComponentName" components/

Step 3: Consult Documentation

Required reading before implementation:

  • CONTRIBUTING.md -- Workflow and git process
  • docs/database/DATA_DICTIONARY.md -- Database schema (SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH)
  • docs/database/RLS_IMPLEMENTATION_GUIDE.md -- Row Level Security (MANDATORY for DB ops)
  • docs/security/SECURITY_FIRST_ARCHITECTURE.md -- Security patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. yesterday First seen · 85 lines · 687 tokens per session scan A d2a4837ffb95

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02-pattern-discovery is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository bybren-llc/a-safe-pulse (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 687 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to 02-pattern-discovery, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.