git-branch-and-push-safety

git-branch-and-push-safety is a cursor rule for Cursor from Elumenotion/GuideAnts. It costs 436 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for safer Git branch management and code pushing. Git is a tool for tracking code changes, and a branch is a separate line of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides feature-branch creation, upstream-branch checks, and push commands, while requiring explicit user approval before pushing or committing.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of sending feature work to the main shared branch or using an incorrect remote branch.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It guides feature-branch creation, upstream-branch checks, and push commands, while requiring explicit user approval before pushing or committing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/elumenotion/guideants/git-branch-and-push-safety
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/Elumenotion/GuideAnts

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 436 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 436 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 $0.00436 $0.00436
Opus 5.5 $0.00174 $0.00174
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00087 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 270d820edbeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-branch-and-push-safety 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 1mo 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.

src/.cursor/rules/git-branch-and-push-safety.mdc · 59 lines

What it actually says

Git Branch and Push Safety

Agent restrictions

  • Never run git push in any form unless the user explicitly asks in the current message.
  • Never run git push --force or git push --force-with-lease to main or master.
  • Never run git commit (see commit-ownership rule).
  • When the user asks to push, verify upstream first and show them the exact command; prefer git push -u origin HEAD on a feature branch.

Creating a feature branch (required pattern)

Always create feature branches from updated main and set upstream to the same branch name on origin:

git fetch origin
git checkout main
git pull origin main
git checkout -b feature/<name>
git push -u origin feature/<name>

Never use any of these on a feature branch:

  • git push -u origin main
  • git push origin HEAD:main
  • git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main (while not on main)

Verify before any push (user or agent handoff)

git branch -vv
git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{u}

Upstream must be origin/<same-branch-name>, not origin/main, unless the current branch is literally main.

If upstream is wrong on a feature branch:

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/feature/<name> feature/<name>

Local hook (install once per clone)

.\scripts\install-git-hooks.ps1

This installs .githooks/pre-push, which blocks pushing a non-main branch to origin/main.

GitHub (already configured)

main requires pull requests. Force-push rules may be bypassable by admins — the local hook is the last line of defense before push.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 436 tokens per session scan A 270d820edbeb

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git-branch-and-push-safety is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Elumenotion/GuideAnts (65 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 436 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.