index

index is a cursor rule for Cursor from gavinmcfall/home-ops. It costs 0 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for managing a Kubernetes home lab with GitOps, where configuration stored in Git is used to control deployed systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or updating applications, manifests, secrets, and Flux or Talos configuration in the homelab.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a common map of the repository’s architecture, tools, workflows, and deployment checks.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when adding or updating applications, manifests, secrets, and Flux or Talos configuration in the homelab.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/gavinmcfall/home-ops/index
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/gavinmcfall/home-ops

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00600
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00240
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 329059a10431, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

index 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.

.cursor/rules/index.mdc · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Homelab Repository Context

This repository manages a Kubernetes homelab using GitOps principles with Flux, Talos, and Taskfile-driven workflows.

Core Documentation

The following files contain comprehensive context about this repository. They are the single source of truth shared across all AI coding assistants:

@docs/ai-context/README.md @docs/ai-context/ARCHITECTURE.md @docs/ai-context/DOMAIN.md @docs/ai-context/WORKFLOWS.md @docs/ai-context/TOOLS.md @docs/ai-context/CONVENTIONS.md

Quick Reference

Core Pattern

GitOps + templated manifests via Taskfile and Makejinja. Flux applies results from kubernetes/apps/*, Talos controls nodes.

Key Workflows

  1. Deploy New App

    • Create kubernetes/apps/<namespace>/<app>/ with kustomization.yaml, app/helmrelease.yaml, externalsecret.yaml
    • Run task configure → task kubernetes:kubeconform → flux diff
    • Open PR, merge, monitor with flux get helmrelease
  2. Update Configuration

    • Edit templates in bootstrap/ or app manifests
    • Run task configure to regenerate
    • Validate with task kubernetes:kubeconform
    • Check diff with flux diff kustomization <namespace>

Essential Rules

  • Never manually edit generated files under kubernetes/apps/*/app/
  • Always use task configure to render templates from bootstrap/
  • Use placeholders for secrets: ${SECRET_DOMAIN}, ${DB_URI}, etc.
  • Define storage explicitly in HelmRelease persistence sections
  • Pin container images as <tag>@<digest>
  • Follow conventional commits: chore(app): description
  • Run task kubernetes:kubeconform before opening PRs

Discovery Commands

# Find HelmReleases
rg --files -g"helmrelease.yaml" kubernetes/apps

# Find placeholder usage
rg -n "\${SECRET_DOMAIN}" -g"*.yaml" kubernetes/apps

# Validate manifests
task configure && task kubernetes:kubeconform

# Check Flux status
flux get kustomizations
flux diff kustomization <namespace>

File Organization

  • kubernetes/apps/<namespace>/<app>/ - Application manifests
  • kubernetes/flux/ - Flux configuration
  • bootstrap/ - Makejinja templates (source)
  • .taskfiles/ - Task modules
  • talosconfig/ - Talos node configs
  • scripts/ - Helper scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

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 · 77 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 329059a10431

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index is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository gavinmcfall/home-ops (37 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 600 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 2026-09-01.