components

components is a cursor rule for Cursor from GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules. It costs 14 tokens per session (433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of React component design patterns for composing reusable interface pieces and sharing state between related components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for cards, tabs, variants, compound components, render functions, and components that accept native HTML properties.
Why use it?
It helps keep components flexible and understandable as interfaces grow, without forcing every variation into one oversized component.

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

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 433 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 $0.00014 $0.00433
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured yesterday against content hash 1762638d8c28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

components 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 yesterday.

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/languages/react/components.mdc · 42 lines

What it actually says

Component Design Patterns

Structure

  • Functional components; extend native props where appropriate (React.ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement>); spread ...props onto DOM element; use cn() or similar for class merging
  • Variants: use discriminated props (e.g. variant: 'primary' | 'secondary') and map to styles; avoid boolean prop proliferation

Composition Over Configuration

  • Prefer composition: <Card><CardHeader>...</CardHeader><CardContent>...</CardContent></Card> over <Card title="..." content="..." />
  • Small, focused subcomponents (CardHeader, CardContent, CardFooter) give flexibility and clarity

Compound Components

  • Parent holds state (e.g. active tab); provide via Context; child components consume with useContext or custom hook; throw if used outside provider
  • Example: Tabs (state) + TabsList + Tab + TabPanel; share activeTab / setActiveTab via context

Render Props / Slots

  • When composition needs access to internal state: children(value) or render(value); or use slot props: header, footer as render functions

Props Conventions

  • Children: React.ReactNode for flexible content
  • Optional with defaults: variant = 'primary'
  • Forwarding refs: forwardRef when wrapping native elements (input, button) for focus or form libraries
  • Avoid: Boolean props that could be variants (e.g. isPrimaryvariant="primary")

Best Practices

  • Single responsibility; composition; consistent prop naming; accessibility (see accessibility.mdc)

Anti-Patterns

  • Monolithic components with many optional props; prop drilling (use context or composition); missing ref forwarding for form/accessibility

See also: forms.mdc, accessibility.mdc, styling.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. yesterday First seen · 42 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 1762638d8c28

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components is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository GoranErhartic/cursor-development-rules (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 433 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 2026-09-03.