gitignore

gitignore is a cursor rule for Cursor from CiscoDevNet/essentials. It costs 0 tokens per session (302 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A ruleset for creating `.gitignore` files, which tell Git not to track temporary, generated, or machine-specific files. It provides templates for common systems, languages, notebooks, and related tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after setting up projects with tools such as Poetry or uv, and when adding ignore rules for macOS, Node.js, Python, Jupyter notebooks, or LangChain.
Why use it?
It helps keep unwanted local files out of version control and reduces the risk of committing build output, editor files, or other generated data.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it after setting up projects with tools such as Poetry or uv, and when adding ignore rules for macOS, Node.js, Python, Jupyter notebooks, or LangChain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ciscodevnet/essentials/gitignore
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/CiscoDevNet/essentials

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 302 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d3d5dbc7997, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitignore scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattnorris/gitignore/refs/heads/temp-backup/community/TemporaryBackup.gitignore >> .gitignore
.cursor/rules/gitignore.mdc · 58 lines

What it actually says

Gitignore Setup

After creating a project with a command like poetry or uv, detect the languages of the project and ignore the proper items.

Use the following commands to create comprehensive .gitignore files.

Most projects

Ignore temporary and backup files.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattnorris/gitignore/refs/heads/temp-backup/community/TemporaryBackup.gitignore >> .gitignore

Ignore common Mac artifacts.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/refs/heads/main/Global/macOS.gitignore >> .gitignore

Node.js

Ignore common Node artifacts.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/main/Node.gitignore >> .gitignore

Python

Ignore common Python artifacts.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Python.gitignore >> .gitignore

Notebooks

Ignore Jupyter artifacts.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/refs/heads/main/community/Python/JupyterNotebooks.gitignore >> .gitignore

LangChain

Ignore LangGraph artifacts.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattnorris/gitignore/refs/heads/langchain/LangChain.gitignore >> .gitignore
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 · 58 lines · 302 tokens per session scan A 8d3d5dbc7997

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gitignore is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository CiscoDevNet/essentials (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 302 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.