do-check-before-deleting

do-check-before-deleting is a cursor rule for Cursor from FeatureFactory-io/mimir. It costs 0 tokens per session (136 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development rule for checking code usage before deleting functions, variables, or classes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before deletion to search for references, explain why removal is safe, ask the user when needed, and mark an approved deletion in the commit.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accidental breakage caused by removing code that is still called or created elsewhere.

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/featurefactory-io/mimir/do-check-before-deleting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FeatureFactory-io/mimir

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 136 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 $0.00136
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00014

Measured 4d ago against content hash 12c70cfc9ec6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-check-before-deleting 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 4d 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/do-check-before-deleting.mdc · 12 lines

What it actually says

Rule: Check Before Deleting Code

Never mindlessly delete functions, variables, classes etc. Follow these steps:

  • First ask yourself: "Why do I need to delete it? What will happen if it's not there?"
  • Check if there are instantiations of the class or calls to a function.
  • Even when you see that there is not a single instantiation of the class or call to a function - ask the user with the proposal to delete it, explain your analysis and tell why you think it's safe to delete it.
  • Even if the user agrees - add a tag "deleted def func_x" on the commit.
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. 4d ago First seen · 12 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 12c70cfc9ec6

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do-check-before-deleting is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository FeatureFactory-io/mimir (13 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 136 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.