060-response-format

060-response-format is a cursor rule for Cursor from giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit. It costs 229 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for how an AI coding assistant should structure its replies. It requires the result first, comparison tables for choices, and a short status summary for multi-step work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want consistent answers, clear comparisons between options, and explicit progress reporting during tasks with several steps.
Why use it?
It makes responses easier to scan and helps ensure that unfinished work, next steps, and decisions are clearly identified.

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/060-response-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 229 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 229 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 $0.00229 $0.00229
Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6805b538d81e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

060-response-format 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 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.

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/060-response-format.mdc · 17 lines

What it actually says

Response format rules

  • Lead with the outcome: the first one or two sentences state the result, answer, or recommendation. Supporting detail comes after.
  • Keep main points short and scannable; expand only where the reader needs it to act.
  • When the user must choose, present a decision table with the columns Option, What it does, Cost, Risk, Recommended. Mark exactly one option as recommended and give the reason in one line under the table.
  • Use tables for comparable facts only; keep reasoning in prose around the table, not inside cells.
  • End every multi-step task response with a status block:
    • Done: what was completed and how it was verified.
    • Next: the next task in order, or "none" when the work is complete.
    • Decision needed: present only when a blocking choice belongs to the user.
  • When several tasks remain, list them in order and name the one that starts next.
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 · 229 tokens per session scan A 6805b538d81e

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060-response-format is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository giang6283623/minimal-vibe-coding-kit (18 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 229 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.