guardrails

guardrails is a cursor rule for Cursor from erniker/understudy. It costs 48 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of always-on rules for an AI coding agent's security and behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Applying shared security and behaviour rules across all agents and tasks.
Why use it?
It gives every agent the same baseline instructions, helping keep its actions within the project's expected boundaries.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Applying shared security and behaviour rules across all agents and tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails
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/erniker/understudy

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.

agentmods badge for guardrails

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for guardrails

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/erniker/understudy/guardrails.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 48 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 $0.00048 $0.00048
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00019
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00005

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 95edd5aad9b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guardrails 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.

templates/.cursor/rules/guardrails.mdc · 10 lines

What it actually says

{{GUARDRAILS_SECTION}}

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 · 10 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 95edd5aad9b2

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guardrails is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository erniker/understudy (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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