no-em-dashes

no-em-dashes is a cursor rule for Cursor from exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes. It costs 149 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing rule that forbids em dashes, the long punctuation mark used to interrupt or separate parts of a sentence.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for applying em-dash-free writing rules to project documentation and other prose.
Why use it?
It prevents prose from using prohibited dash punctuation and guides the writer toward commas, semicolons, colons, or separate sentences.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for applying em-dash-free writing rules to project documentation and other prose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes/no-em-dashes
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/exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes/no-em-dashes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes/no-em-dashes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 149 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 149 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 $0.00149 $0.00149
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 7d ago against content hash 85df5cb596da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-em-dashes 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 7d 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.

.cursor/rules/no-em-dashes.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

Follow the writing rules in AGENTS.md at the repository root.

In short: never use an em dash (U+2014) or its stand-ins (a double hyphen, a spaced hyphen, a stray en dash, the horizontal bar) as sentence punctuation. Replace them with commas, semicolons, colons, periods, or parentheses, and recast when a plain swap reads awkwardly. Keep ordinary hyphens in compounds, ranges, code, and Markdown structure. See AGENTS.md for the full playbook.

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. 7d ago First seen · 13 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 85df5cb596da

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no-em-dashes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository exmergo/skill-no-em-dashes (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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.