400-md-docs

A set of rules for writing and updating Markdown, a plain-text format commonly used for documentation and README files. It covers structure, headings, spacing, metadata, code blocks, tables, and diagrams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or editing Markdown documentation that needs standardized headings, front matter, code examples, tables, or Mermaid diagrams.
Why use it?
It keeps Markdown documents consistent, readable, and formatted correctly across projects.

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/cmnemoi/cursor-rules/400-md-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmnemoi/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 743 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00074

Measured yesterday against content hash 4a14e8915503, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

400-md-docs 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

100% identical to 400-md-docs — 1 line 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.

emush/.cursor/rules/400-md-docs.mdc · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown Documentation Standards

Requirements

  • Follow the official Markdown Guide for all basic and extended syntax
  • Maintain clear document structure and readability
  • Include appropriate metadata when required
  • Use Mermaid diagrams for visual documentation where appropriate
  • Always Include YAML front matter for metadata but Keep metadata concise

Markdown Reference

For all basic and extended Markdown syntax, refer to:

Formatting Rules

  • Use ATX-style headings with space after hash: # Heading
  • Maintain proper heading hierarchy (don't skip levels)
  • Maximum heading depth: 4 levels
  • Add blank line before and after headings
  • Indent content within XML tags by 2 spaces
  • Close XML tags on their own line at the parent indentation level
  • Use blockquotes with emoji for different types of callouts:

💡 Tip: Helpful suggestion.

ℹ️ Note: Additional context.

Code Blocks

  • Use triple backticks with language specification
  • Indent code blocks properly
  • Add blank line before and after
  • Use inline code for short references

Reference the example() function inline.

Tables

  • Use alignment indicators
  • Include header row separator
  • Keep tables simple and readable
  • Add blank lines before and after

Special Elements

Callouts

Use blockquotes with emoji for different types of callouts:

💡 Tip: Helpful suggestion.

ℹ️ Note: Additional context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 743 tokens per session scan A 4a14e8915503

Subscribe to this mod's changes

400-md-docs is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository cmnemoi/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 743 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to 400-md-docs, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.