validate-fix

validate-fix is a cursor rule for Cursor from danielvm-git/bigpowers. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,345 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Prove a fix works before declaring done — re-run the failing test, run the full suite, typecheck, lint, and harden against recurrence. Use after implementing a bug fix, when user says "is this fixed?", or before closing an investigation.

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/validate-fix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

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.

agentmods badge for validate-fix

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,345 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.01345
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00673
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00135

Measured today against content hash 6d881d6a8d8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-fix 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 today.

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/validate-fix.mdc · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Fix

HARD GATE — Fix must not regress. Run full test suite and manual UAT before declaring success.

Prove the fix works. "I think it works" is not evidence. Run the suite, show the output, then harden against recurrence.

Two-commit red/green policy (e45s08) — Bug fixes follow the same two-commit discipline as develop-tdd: first commit adds/adjusts the failing test (test(<scope>): …), second commit applies the fix (fix(<scope>): …). Do not squash RED and GREEN before review.

Checklist

1. Re-run the originally failing test

# Run the specific test that captured the bug
<test command for the failing test>
  • Previously failing test now passes

2. Run the full test suite

# Run all tests — no filtering
<full test command from CLAUDE.md>
  • All tests pass (zero regressions)

3. Type check

<typecheck command>
  • No type errors introduced

4. Lint

<lint command>
  • No lint violations introduced

5. Harden against recurrence

For every bug fixed, add at least one prevention layer:

Mechanism When to use
Type guard Input could be the wrong shape
Schema validation (Zod, Pydantic, etc.) External data crossing a boundary
Invariant assertion Internal state that must always hold
Lint rule Pattern that's easy to repeat by mistake
Environment check at startup Missing config causes silent failure
  • At least one hardening mechanism added
  • Hardening mechanism is tested

5b. Generalize-fix (HARD GATE — e80s04 / GH #98)

Sweep the defect class across the codebase after local hardening — see REFERENCE-generalize-fix.md.

  • Defect class documented (not just the one-line root cause)
  • Grep sweep run and match_count recorded
  • verify-generalize-sweep.sh passes on the artifact

6. Update the bug file and registry.yaml

Find the most recent specs/bugs/BUG-*.md file and append the resolution:

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. today First seen · 147 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 6d881d6a8d8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate-fix is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (162 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,345 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.