chapter-hero-images

Rules for adding a hero image, the large introductory image at the top of each tutorial chapter. They specify its location, file format, naming pattern, and how to generate it with an image tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or editing tutorial chapters. It helps place the image correctly and create full-size and thumbnail versions based on the chapter topic.
Why use it?
It keeps chapter pages visually consistent and prevents new chapters from being published without their required introductory image.

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/dalehurley/codewithphp/chapter-hero-images
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dalehurley/codewithphp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,410 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.01410
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash 68033c840e5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chapter-hero-images 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.

.cursor/rules/chapter-hero-images.mdc · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hero Image Generation for Tutorial Chapters

When creating or editing tutorial chapter files, always include a hero image at the top of the content.

Hero Image Requirements

Every chapter MUST have a hero image placed immediately after the frontmatter and before the main heading.

Placement Format

---
title: "NN: Chapter Title"
description: "Chapter description"
series: "series-slug"
chapter: N
order: N
difficulty: "Beginner|Intermediate|Advanced"
prerequisites: []
---

![Chapter Title](/images/{series}/chapter-{nn}-{slug}-hero-full.webp)

# Chapter NN: Chapter Title

## Overview

...

Generating Hero Images

Using the MCP Imagen Tool

When creating a new chapter, generate the hero image using the mcp_imagen_generate_image tool:

mcp_imagen_generate_image({
  prompt:
    "Contextual description based on chapter topic, technical illustration",
  series: "php-basics" | "ai-ml-php-developers",
  chapter: "00" | "01" | "15b", // Zero-padded chapter number
  slug: "descriptive-slug-hero", // Kebab-case based on chapter title
  creative_mode: false,
  sizes: ["full", "thumbnail"],
});

Prompt Generation Guidelines

Create prompts based on the chapter topic:

PHP Basics Examples:

  • Chapter 00 (Environment Setup): "PHP development environment setup with code editor and terminal, technical illustration, computer workspace"
  • Chapter 02 (Variables): "Variables and data types symbols, programming variables visualization, technical illustration"
  • Chapter 08 (OOP): "Object-oriented programming PHP classes and objects, OOP concepts diagram, technical illustration"
  • Chapter 14 (Databases): "Database connection with PDO PHP, database tables and SQL queries, technical illustration"

AI/ML Examples:

  • Chapter 01 (AI Intro): "Artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts, AI technology visualization, technical illustration"
  • Chapter 05 (Linear Regression): "Linear regression model graph, first ML model visualization, technical illustration"
  • Chapter 13 (NLP): "Natural language processing text analysis, NLP word clouds and text, technical illustration"

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 68033c840e5d

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chapter-hero-images is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dalehurley/codewithphp (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,410 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.