cursorrules

A legacy Cursor rule file that tells the coding agent how to plan, inspect, develop, and review changes. Cursor is an AI code editor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding work in older Cursor projects, including planning changes, checking nearby code, developing step by step, writing tests, and reviewing the result.
Why use it?
It encourages the agent to understand the existing project and write tests before making implementation changes. Newer Cursor workspaces should use project rule files in cursor/.cursor/rules/.mdc instead.

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/dongduong2001/pudo-code-system/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DongDuong2001/pudo-code-system

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 208 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 208 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 $0.00208 $0.00208
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.00104
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured yesterday against content hash e1c17bd5d043, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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/.cursorrules · 26 lines

What it actually says

PUDO Methodology Rules

Legacy Cursor rule file. Prefer the Project Rules templates in cursor/.cursor/rules/*.mdc for current Cursor versions. Keep this file for older Cursor workspaces that still read .cursorrules.

Always follow the PUDO (Plan -> Understand -> Develop -> Optimize) framework.

1. Plan

  • Do not generate implementation code right away.
  • Propose an implementation plan first.
  • Explicitly outline scope, constraints, and success criteria.

2. Understand

  • Read related files and context before writing code.
  • Match existing code patterns, naming conventions, and architecture.

3. Develop

  • Work step-by-step.
  • Write tests alongside feature code.
  • Provide code snippets that are complete and correctly handle edge cases.

4. Optimize

  • Self-review your code before finishing.
  • Check for performance bottlenecks, dead code, and missing documentation.

Embrace iterative loops: if an approach fails during Develop, pause and re-Plan.

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 · 26 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A e1c17bd5d043

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository DongDuong2001/pudo-code-system (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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.

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