ascii-user-strings

ascii-user-strings is a cursor rule for Cursor from goldbuick/zed-software-system. It costs 376 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding rule requiring selected log and test strings to contain only ASCII characters, with arrows written as numeric character codes such as $NN.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing apilog, apierror, and tape strings.
Why use it?
It prevents non-ASCII characters in the specified strings and keeps their representation consistent.

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/goldbuick/zed-software-system/ascii-user-strings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/goldbuick/zed-software-system

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/goldbuick/zed-software-system/ascii-user-strings"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/goldbuick/zed-software-system/ascii-user-strings.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 376 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 376 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00376 $0.00376
Opus 5 $0.00188 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 3d ago against content hash c8a8e65c94d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascii-user-strings 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/ascii-user-strings.mdc · 43 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 43 lines · 376 tokens per session scan A c8a8e65c94d5

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ascii-user-strings is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository goldbuick/zed-software-system (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), with no licence file. It adds 376 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-31.