researchforge-doctor

researchforge-doctor is a cursor rule for Cursor from forger-labs-hq/researchforge. It costs 0 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup checker for ResearchForge, a tool for running controlled software experiments. It checks whether required programs such as Git and Python are available, with Docker checked when applicable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether a machine is ready for a ResearchForge project and diagnosing setup problems.
Why use it?
It explains missing or failing dependencies before later commands are attempted.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Checking whether a machine is ready for a ResearchForge project and diagnosing setup problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/forger-labs-hq/researchforge/researchforge-doctor
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/forger-labs-hq/researchforge

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 researchforge-doctor

README.md
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Your own site
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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 researchforge-doctor

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 350 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00035

Measured 9d ago against content hash fdfc3284243d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researchforge-doctor 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 9d 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/researchforge/cursor/rules/researchforge-doctor.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

Diagnose the ResearchForge environment

researchforge doctor --json

Each entry has name, ok, required, detail, and an optional hint.

  • All required checks pass → say the environment is ready and continue.
  • A required check fails → explain the failure in plain language, show the hint, and stop: later commands will refuse to run. Do not try to work around a failed required check.
  • An optional check fails (e.g. Docker) → note the limitation: experiments fall back to .venv mode, which is dependency isolation, not a security sandbox — only trusted repositories should be run there.

If rules seem out of date or missing, researchforge cursor status --json reports the installed/modified/missing state of each rule and researchforge cursor install refreshes unmodified ones.

Rules

  • The Python engine is the boundary: never work around a validation error, a protected path, or an approval gate — fix the artifact or ask the user.
  • Approvals belong to the user: never pass --yes or type a confirmation unless the user explicitly approved that step in this conversation.
  • Ground every summary in stored data: quote only numbers returned by --json output or files under .researchforge/ — never invent metrics.
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. 9d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fdfc3284243d

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researchforge-doctor is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository forger-labs-hq/researchforge (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 350 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 2026-08-31.