function-length-and-responsibility

function-length-and-responsibility is a cursor rule for Cursor from claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules. It costs 80 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of function-length-and-responsibility, CC0-1.0.

Guidance for keeping functions short and focused on one responsibility. The single responsibility principle means one function should have one main purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when breaking up long or complex functions and when reviewing code structure.
Why use it?
Smaller, focused functions are easier to read, test, debug, and change safely.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when breaking up long or complex functions and when reviewing code structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules/function-length-and-responsibility
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/claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 80 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 80 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00080 $0.00080
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00040
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00016
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00008

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0d0dc02928e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

function-length-and-responsibility 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 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.

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

100% identical to function-length-and-responsibility — 0 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.

rules/github-cursorrules-prompt-file-instructions/function-length-and-responsibility.mdc · 7 lines

What it actually says

  • Write short functions that only do one thing.
  • Follow the single responsibility principle (SRP), which means that a function should have one purpose and perform it effectively.
  • If a function becomes too long or complex, consider breaking it into smaller, more manageable functions.
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. 4d ago First seen · 7 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 0d0dc02928e4

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function-length-and-responsibility is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules (0 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to function-length-and-responsibility, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.