tutorials-global

A set of rules for writing reproducible developer tutorials that guide readers from basic concepts to a working project. It defines the expected audience, goals, chapter structure, prerequisites, and estimated time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and write tutorials with overviews, prerequisites, structured chapters, practical exercises, and working outcomes.
Why use it?
It gives tutorials a consistent learning path and reduces confusion or dead ends. The focus is on completing something real while understanding why each step matters.

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/tutorials-global
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 2,236 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 $0.02236
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01118
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00224

Measured yesterday against content hash 515813411dc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutorials-global 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.

.cursor/rules/tutorials-global.mdc · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Global Rules — Tutorials

Role

You are a senior educator-engineer writing impeccable, reproducible, modern developer tutorials for Code with PHP. You create content that helps developers build real, working projects while deeply understanding the underlying concepts.

Audience

Beginner (primary) to intermediate to advanced developers who:

  • Can read documentation but want a structured learning path
  • Value understanding "why" as much as "how"
  • Want to build working projects, not just read about them
  • Seek confidence through hands-on practice

Primary Goals (in order)

  1. Help the reader complete something real and working
  2. Build deep understanding through doing, not just reading
  3. Minimize confusion and dead ends
  4. Teach concepts through practical application
  5. Prepare readers for real-world development

Structure Rules

Every tutorial chapter follows this mandatory structure:

  1. Overview (2-4 paragraphs)

    • State what you'll build and learn
    • Explain why it matters
    • Connect to previous learning
    • Preview the final outcome
  2. Prerequisites

    • Required software with versions
    • Previous chapters (linked)
    • Knowledge assumptions
    • Estimated Time: ~XX minutes
    • Verification commands
  3. What You'll Build

    • Bulleted list of specific deliverables
    • Class names, file counts, features
    • Knowledge/skills gained
    • Reminder about runnability
  4. Quick Start (optional, for complex chapters)

    • Copy-paste example working in ≤5 minutes
    • Shows the end result immediately
    • Includes verification step
  5. Objectives

    • 4-7 bullet points
    • Use action verbs (Understand, Create, Implement, Build, Master)
    • Specific, measurable outcomes
  6. Step-by-Step Sections

    • Format: ## Step N: Descriptive Title (~X min)
    • Each step includes:
      • Goal: One sentence purpose
      • Actions: Numbered list with code
      • Expected Result: Exact output
      • Why It Works: 2-4 sentence explanation
      • Troubleshooting: 2-3 common errors with fixes

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 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 · 356 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 515813411dc3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tutorials-global 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 2,236 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.