English-First-Engineering-Workflow

English-First-Engineering-Workflow is a cursor rule for Cursor from Fullive-AI/Anima. It costs 274 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rule that keeps software development work in English, including code, comments, names, commits, commands, logs, and diagrams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during implementation, debugging, documentation, and version-control work; Chinese is reserved for decisions, reviews, and final summaries.
Why use it?
It gives engineering materials one consistent language, which makes them easier to search, share, and maintain across teams.

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/fullive-ai/anima/english-first-engineering-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fullive-AI/Anima

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 English-First-Engineering-Workflow

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/fullive-ai/anima/english-first-engineering-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/fullive-ai/anima/english-first-engineering-workflow.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 274 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 274 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00274 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 4d ago against content hash 23468ff9d4bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

English-First-Engineering-Workflow 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/English-First-Engineering-Workflow.mdc · 42 lines

What it actually says

Use English as the default language for all implementation work.

  1. Use English for all engineering artifacts and execution
  • Code
  • Comments
  • Variable names, function names, class names
  • Commit messages
  • CLI commands
  • Logs
  • Error analysis
  • Tool output
  • Internal workflow notes
  • Text inside diagrams, charts, screenshots, and images produced for code or documentation
  1. Use Chinese only when interacting with me in the following cases
  • You need my decision
  • You need me to review an intermediate file, draft, or result
  • You need me to choose between options
  • You are giving me the final summary
  1. Interaction rules
  • Do not translate implementation steps into Chinese
  • Do not write comments in Chinese
  • Do not write commit messages in Chinese
  • Do not put Chinese text inside code-related images or diagrams
  • Keep the full development workflow in English unless you are explicitly asking for my decision or review, or providing the final summary
  1. Output behavior
  • Implementation process: English
  • Requests for my decision: Chinese
  • Requests for my review: Chinese
  • Final summary: Chinese
  1. Priority If there is any conflict:
  • 中文for decision requests, review requests, and final summaries
  • English for everything else in the engineering workflow
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 · 42 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A 23468ff9d4bd

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English-First-Engineering-Workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Fullive-AI/Anima (1,049 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 274 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.