cursorrules

A template for a Cursor project-rules file named `.cursorrules`. Cursor is a coding editor with an AI assistant; the template records a project's technology choices, conventions, forbidden patterns, and SAGE workflow commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point for documenting a project's language, framework, architecture, testing choices, conventions, and SAGE commands.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant project-specific guidance instead of leaving it to guess the stack or coding rules. It also describes how SAGE's specification-first commands should behave.

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/gustavobarbosab/sage/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gustavobarbosab/sage

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 809 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 809 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 $0.00809 $0.00809
Opus 5 $0.00404 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00162 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00081 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash f137f53b7785, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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.

skill/cursor/.cursorrules · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SAGE — Cursor Rules

Copy this file to your project root as .cursorrules

── Harness ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Fill in your project-specific conventions below.

Run /sage harness init or /sage harness generate to generate this automatically.

[HARNESS]

Stack:

- Language:

- UI Framework:

- DI:

- Architecture:

- State management:

- Test framework:

Conventions:

- (add naming patterns, architecture rules, required practices)

Avoid:

- (add anti-patterns, deprecated APIs, forbidden patterns)

[/HARNESS]

── SAGE Workflow ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

SAGE is a spec-first, AI-assisted development workflow.

When the user types @sage or references any SAGE command below, follow these rules.

Commands

@sage spec

Two-phase command — do NOT generate files immediately.

Phase 1 — Interview:

  • Analyze the description and prepare questions
  • Show ALL questions at once with a count: "I have X questions before writing your spec and behavior files."
  • Format each: "Question N of X / [Category] / "
  • Wait for the user to answer all questions
  • Minimum 3, maximum 10 questions

Phase 2 — Generation (after answers received):

  • Generate spec.md:

    Feature:

    What it does / ### Inputs / ### Outputs / ### Acceptance criteria / ### Do NOT

  • Immediately generate behavior.md in the same response:

    Open Questions (list remaining ambiguities as - [ ] items, or "- No open questions.")

    Test Cases (placeholder if questions remain, full BDD scenarios if none)

Never skip the interview. Never generate files before answers are received.

@sage behavior

Read spec.md and generate behavior.md. MANDATORY structure:

SECTION 1 — Open Questions (ALWAYS first): List every ambiguity as: - [ ] If no ambiguities: - No open questions.

SECTION 2 — Test Cases: Output: "> ⚠️ Pending resolution of open questions above." STOP. Wait for user to resolve questions before continuing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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 · 102 lines · 809 tokens per session scan A f137f53b7785

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cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository gustavobarbosab/sage (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 809 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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.