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.
npx agentmods add rules/hansonli05/cursor-rules-system/systempatternsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hansonli05/Cursor-rules-systemWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00902 | $0.00902 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00451 | $0.00451 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00180 | $0.00180 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00090 | $0.00090 |
Grade A, and why
systemPatterns 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
System Patterns
Architecture Overview
High-Level Architecture
[Describe your system's overall architecture - e.g., client-server, microservices, monolith, etc.]
Core Components
- [Component 1]: [Purpose and responsibilities]
- [Component 2]: [Purpose and responsibilities]
- [Component 3]: [Purpose and responsibilities]
System Boundaries
- Internal Systems: [Components you control]
- External Systems: [Third-party services, APIs]
- Integration Points: [How components communicate]
Key Design Patterns
Architectural Patterns
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[Pattern 1]: [When and how it's used]
- Context: [Why this pattern was chosen]
- Implementation: [How it's implemented in your system]
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[Pattern 2]: [When and how it's used]
- Context: [Why this pattern was chosen]
- Implementation: [How it's implemented in your system]
Code Patterns
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[Code Pattern 1]: [Description]
- Usage: [When to apply this pattern]
- Example: [Brief example or reference]
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[Code Pattern 2]: [Description]
- Usage: [When to apply this pattern]
- Example: [Brief example or reference]
Data Flow
Primary Data Flows
- [Flow Name 1]: [Source] → [Processing] → [Destination]
- [Flow Name 2]: [Source] → [Processing] → [Destination]
State Management
- Global State: [How global state is managed]
- Local State: [Patterns for component state]
- Persistence: [How data is persisted]
Security Patterns
- Authentication: [How users are authenticated]
- Authorization: [How permissions are managed]
- Data Protection: [How sensitive data is protected]
- API Security: [How APIs are secured]
Performance Patterns
- Caching Strategy: [How caching is implemented]
- Loading Patterns: [How data loading is optimized]
- Optimization Strategies: [Key performance optimizations]
Error Handling
- Error Boundaries: [How errors are contained]
- Logging Strategy: [How errors are logged and monitored]
- User Error Experience: [How errors are presented to users]
- Recovery Patterns: [How the system recovers from errors]
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.
- yesterday First seen · 103 lines · 902 tokens per session scan A 6faaa039f55b
systemPatterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Hansonli05/Cursor-rules-system (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 902 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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.
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