code-review

Rules for reviewing code, checking completion, and reporting the result of a development task. They define checks such as building, testing, avoiding secrets, and documenting changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to run a code-review loop, check the build and tests, inspect security and error handling, and report changes, reasoning, verification, and limitations.
Why use it?
They provide a repeatable way to find issues before declaring work complete.

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/goranerhartic/cursor-development-rules/code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 283 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00013 $0.00283
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash d2828d3251f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review 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 2d 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/development/code-review.mdc · 44 lines

What it actually says

Code Review and Definition of Done

Code Review

  1. When task is completed perform a code review
  2. Try to find room for improvement or code optimization
  3. If there is identified room for improvement document it as a new checklist
  4. Implement given improvements
  5. Loop back to first point of the code review and repeat the process until you are satisfied with the output

Definition of Done

A task is complete when:

Criterion Requirement
Builds Project compiles without errors or warnings
Tests Pass All unit and integration tests are green
No Secrets No credentials or sensitive data in codebase
Documented Changes explained with clear reasoning

Summary Format

After completing work, provide:

  1. What changed — Modifications made
  2. Why — Reasoning behind decisions
  3. How to verify — Validation steps
  4. Limitations — Trade-offs or future considerations

Quick Checklist

  • Project builds successfully
  • All tests pass
  • No secrets exposed
  • Input sanitization at boundaries
  • Follows existing patterns
  • Error handling implemented

See also: development/code-implementation.mdc

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. 2d ago First seen · 44 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A d2828d3251f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 283 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.