verify-claims-with-evidence

verify-claims-with-evidence is a cursor rule for Cursor from David405/harness-kit. It costs 307 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rule for checking claims about code, schemas, configuration, and project history against the actual source. It requires evidence or clearly labels a statement as unverified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during code reviews, investigations, migrations, contract work, and commit preparation. It covers both individual claims and broad statements such as “all files changed.”
Why use it?
It prevents assumptions and outdated information from being presented as facts. Readers can trace claims back to files or commands that support them.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it during code reviews, investigations, migrations, contract work, and commit preparation. It covers both individual claims and broad statements such as “all files changed.”

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/david405/harness-kit/verify-claims-with-evidence
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/David405/harness-kit

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 307 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 307 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00307 $0.00307
Opus 5 $0.00153 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2f0c4cee5e7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-claims-with-evidence 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 7d 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/verify-claims-with-evidence.mdc · 32 lines

What it actually says

No unverified claims

Every factual claim about code, schemas, contracts, configuration or history is checked against the source before it is stated, and the evidence is shown. Applies to chat, review comments, findings, contracts, and commit messages.

Before stating it

  1. Read the artifact — the file, the migration, the test, the command output. Not memory, not inference from a filename, not "typically this works like".
  2. Cite it — path plus symbol, or the command and its output, so a reader can re-run the check.
  3. Distinguish did from should. "The handler persists amounts" requires having read the handler. "It should persist amounts" is a proposal and must be worded as one.

When it cannot be verified

Say so, and name what would settle it. Never round an assumption up to a fact.

Re-check your own prior statements

Before a claim goes on the record, re-check it against the code as committed, not as you remember writing it. Claims that were true of a draft go stale.

Aggregate claims — "all of", "every", "nothing else changed" — need a command whose output covers the whole set, not a spot check.

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. 7d ago First seen · 32 lines · 307 tokens per session scan A 2f0c4cee5e7b

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verify-claims-with-evidence is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository David405/harness-kit (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 307 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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.