no-git-publish-without-approval

no-git-publish-without-approval is a cursor rule for coding agents from David405/harness-kit. It costs 216 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety rule for Git publishing actions such as committing, pushing, or opening a pull request. Git is a system for tracking code changes and sharing them with others.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in workflows where the agent may inspect changes, run tests, or prepare files, but must stop and request approval before committing, pushing, or opening a pull request.
Why use it?
It prevents code from being published before a person has clearly approved that specific action.

Cursor rule

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/david405/harness-kit/no-git-publish-without-approval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/David405/harness-kit

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 no-git-publish-without-approval

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/david405/harness-kit/no-git-publish-without-approval.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/david405/harness-kit/no-git-publish-without-approval)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/david405/harness-kit/no-git-publish-without-approval"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/david405/harness-kit/no-git-publish-without-approval.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 216 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 216 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00216 $0.00216
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.00108
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash dac33b7f60d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-git-publish-without-approval 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.

rules/no-git-publish-without-approval.mdc · 32 lines

What it actually says

Git publish gate

Never commit, push, or create/open a pull request without explicit human approval for that specific action.

Not sufficient on their own

  • Sprint contract approved
  • Feature marked PASS or PENDING_REVIEW
  • "approve", "proceed", "looks good", or VERIFY green
  • Staging product files after execute

These authorize implementation and staging only. Publishing still requires an explicit ask.

Required before publishing

The human must clearly request the action, e.g. "commit", "commit and push", "open a PR".

When unsure, ask. After verify, review, and stage, report readiness and stop — do not publish.

Allowed without publish approval

  • git status, git diff, git log (review prep)
  • Local branch create/checkout when the human confirmed the branch name
  • Running tests and linters
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 · 32 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A dac33b7f60d4

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no-git-publish-without-approval is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository David405/harness-kit (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 216 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.