cursorrules

A repository rule that tells the coding agent to use Grafel, an architecture knowledge graph, to understand how the codebase is connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding repository exploration with Grafel tools, while leaving ordinary text searches for comments, TODOs, and bulk file reading.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to find definitions, callers, imports, source code, and end-to-end flows in a large repository.

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/cajasmota/grafel/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cajasmota/grafel

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 358 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 358 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 $0.00358 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00179 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00072 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 00f72be63511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

.cursorrules · 33 lines

What it actually says

grafel MCP

This repo is part of grafel group grafel. grafel is an architecture knowledge graph available via MCP. When you (an AI coding agent) need to understand how this codebase fits together, prefer the grafel MCP tools over grep + reading files.

When to use grafel instead of grep

Question shape Prefer
"Where is X defined?" grafel_find
"What does X look like + its neighbors?" grafel_inspect
"Who calls X?" grafel_expand / grafel_find_callers
"End-to-end flow when user does X?" grafel_traces
"How does the frontend talk to the backend?" grafel_cross_links
"Show me the source of X" grafel_get_source

When grep IS still better

  • Substring search across all files for non-entity strings (comments, TODOs).
  • Anything where you need raw file contents in bulk.

Anti-patterns

  • Don't read an entire file to find one function — grafel_inspect returns it directly.
  • Don't glob for a class name across the repo — grafel_find indexes it.
  • Don't traverse imports manually — grafel_expand does it via the IMPORTS edge.

The full agent guide is delivered automatically in the MCP instructions handshake when you connect.

Do not edit between the markers — this block is auto-updated by grafel install.

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 · 33 lines · 358 tokens per session scan A 00f72be63511

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cajasmota/grafel (11 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 358 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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 2026-08-30.