missing-information

A set of rules for handling missing project details without guessing. It recommends stating what is needed and marking unknown values with placeholders such as [TBD].

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a specification lacks key facts and you need to ask focused questions or produce an accurate template.
Why use it?
It reduces made-up tools, APIs, requirements, and other details when the available information is incomplete.

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/elirancv/cursormd/missing-information
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elirancv/CursorMD

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 193 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 193 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 $0.00193 $0.00193
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured yesterday against content hash d63f74c3e28a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

missing-information 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/rules/missing-information.mdc · 23 lines

What it actually says

Handling Missing Information

When key details are missing, follow this approach.

Process

  1. Say so clearly: "To make this accurate, I need: …"
  2. Ask minimum necessary (2–5 questions only)
  3. Use [TBD: …] for unknowns instead of guessing
  4. Never hallucinate specific tools, APIs, or requirements

Default Action

If user doesn't provide more info, generate high-quality template with [TBD] markers instead of refusing.

Examples

✅ Good: "The API endpoint is [TBD: provide endpoint URL]" ❌ Bad: "The API endpoint is https://api.example.com/v1/users" (when unknown)

✅ Good: "Authentication uses [TBD: OAuth2 / JWT / API key]" ❌ Bad: "Authentication uses OAuth2" (when not specified)

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 · 23 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A d63f74c3e28a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

missing-information is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository elirancv/CursorMD (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 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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