one_level_of_abstraction_per_method

one_level_of_abstraction_per_method is a cursor rule for Cursor from DeGraciaMathieu/cursor-mdc-rules. It costs 39 tokens per session (376 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding rule that keeps each method focused on one level of detail, either describing the main action or carrying out its implementation details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Structuring methods so high-level logic and detailed implementation are kept separate.
Why use it?
It reduces methods that mix broad decisions with low-level code, which can make them harder to read and maintain.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

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/degraciamathieu/cursor-mdc-rules/one_level_of_abstraction_per_method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeGraciaMathieu/cursor-mdc-rules

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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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 376 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00376
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash 574f97226ee2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

one_level_of_abstraction_per_method 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 6d 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/one_level_of_abstraction_per_method.mdc · 54 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 54 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 574f97226ee2

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one_level_of_abstraction_per_method is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository DeGraciaMathieu/cursor-mdc-rules (4 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 376 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.