cursor-rules-location

cursor-rules-location is a cursor rule for Cursor from dstotijn/go-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (320 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Cursor editor rule requiring new MDC rule files to be stored in .cursor/rules, one file per rule, with the .mdc extension and a specified naming format. MDC refers to Cursor's rule-file format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or organizing Cursor rules so each rule is placed in the correct directory and follows the required file format.
Why use it?
It keeps Cursor rules in one predictable location and makes them easier to find, review, and track in version control.

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/dstotijn/go-mcp/cursor-rules-location
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dstotijn/go-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00320
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00160
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash d4bbd8e75542, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursor-rules-location 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/cursor-rules-location.mdc · 45 lines

What it actually says

Description

This rule ensures that all new MDC (Model-Driven Code) rules are created in the .cursor/rules directory, maintaining a consistent and organized structure for rule management.

Rule

When creating new MDC rules:

  1. All new MDC rules MUST be created in the .cursor/rules directory
  2. Each rule MUST be in a separate file
  3. Rule files MUST use the .mdc extension
  4. Rule files MUST follow the naming convention: [rule-name].mdc
  5. Rule files MUST contain proper markdown formatting

Implementation

  • The Cursor IDE will enforce this rule by:
    • Automatically creating new MDC rules in the .cursor/rules directory
    • Preventing creation of MDC rules outside this directory
    • Maintaining separation of rules into individual files
    • Ensuring proper file extensions and naming conventions

Benefits

  • Improved organization and maintainability
  • Easier rule discovery and management
  • Consistent rule structure across the project
  • Better version control and tracking of rule changes

Examples

✅ Correct:

.cursor/rules/
  ├── cursor-rules-location.mdc
  ├── another-rule.mdc
  └── third-rule.mdc

❌ Incorrect:

.cursor/
  ├── rules/
  │   └── cursor-rules-location.mdc
  └── other-rules/
      └── another-rule.mdc
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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 320 tokens per session scan A d4bbd8e75542

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cursor-rules-location is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dstotijn/go-mcp (18 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 320 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.