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.
npx agentmods add rules/cdbattags/ai/use-trash-not-rmgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdbattags/aiWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/cdbattags/ai/use-trash-not-rm)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/cdbattags/ai/use-trash-not-rm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/cdbattags/ai/use-trash-not-rm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00272 | $0.00272 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00136 | $0.00136 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00054 | $0.00054 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00027 |
Grade C, and why
use-trash-not-rm scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
| Permanent delete (only when necessary) | `/bin/rm` or `/bin/rm -rf` | What it actually says
Use trash Instead of rm
This machine has rm aliased to a warning in .zshrc:
alias rm="echo Use 'del', or the full path i.e. '/bin/rm'"
The Cursor Shell tool runs non-interactive (aliases don't load), so use the binary directly.
What to Use
| Action | Command |
|---|---|
| Delete files (recoverable) | /opt/homebrew/bin/trash <file> |
| Delete directories (recoverable) | /opt/homebrew/bin/trash <dir> |
| Permanent delete (only when necessary) | /bin/rm or /bin/rm -rf |
Rules
- Default to
trash— files go to macOS Trash and can be recovered - Only use
/bin/rmwhen deleting generated/temporary files (node_modules, .output, build caches) where recovery is not needed - Never use bare
rm— it will fail in interactive shells due to the alias - On remote servers (SSH),
trashis not available — use/bin/rmthere
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 32 lines · 272 tokens per session scan C 7290bb91810b
use-trash-not-rm is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cdbattags/ai (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 272 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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