040-safe-delete

040-safe-delete is a cursor rule for Cursor from giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit. It costs 270 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

A set of rules for deleting files by moving them to the system trash instead of removing them permanently.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides an coding agent when removing files on macOS, Linux, or systems with Node.js, including checking whether a trash command is available.
Why use it?
It lowers the risk of losing files by keeping deletions recoverable. Permanent deletion requires approval for the exact paths.

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/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit/040-safe-delete
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 270 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 270 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00270 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00135 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 3d ago against content hash a1fe6be7745e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

040-safe-delete scanned grade D with 2 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Linux: `sudo apt install trash-cli` or `pip install trash-cli` (https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli).

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Never delete permanently by default. Prefer `trash` over `rm`, `rm -rf`, `rmdir`, and `find -delete` so deletions stay recoverable.
.cursor/rules/040-safe-delete.mdc · 17 lines

What it actually says

Safe delete rules

  • Never delete permanently by default. Prefer trash over rm, rm -rf, rmdir, and find -delete so deletions stay recoverable.
  • Before deleting, check availability with command -v trash. If available, use trash <path>.
  • If trash is missing, recommend installing it instead of falling back to rm:
  • Permanent deletion requires the user's explicit approval of the exact paths, and the path-sensitive-shell-safety skill first when paths come from variables.
  • Honor the deletion preference recorded in backbone.yml conventions.custom_rules during first-time init.
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. 3d ago First seen · 17 lines · 270 tokens per session scan D a1fe6be7745e

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040-safe-delete is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit (18 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 270 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.