agents

General behavior rules for AI coding agents working in a project. They cover decision-making, language, comments, tests, and how project instructions take priority.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide agents when making changes, writing tests and comments, choosing language settings, and handling project instructions.
Why use it?
They reduce inconsistent agent behavior, unsupported assumptions, and low-value code comments or test shortcuts.

Cursor rule

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/hashiiiii/rules-for-ai/agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hashiiiii/rules-for-ai
Per session 445 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 445 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 $0.00445 $0.00445
Opus 5 $0.00222 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00089 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8c278b6e4c13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents 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.

rules/agents.mdc · 52 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS

  • Do not optimize too early
  • If a task causes difficulty, do it more frequently
  • Correct small defects before they become larger defects
  • Never compromise
  • Never assume intentions that the user did not state
  • Insert a half-width space between full-width and half-width characters
  • Do not use emoji
  • Prioritize comments in tests
  • Write comments that explain the reason
  • Do not write comments that only explain the action
  • Never use mocks or stubs

Language

  • Project instructions (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md) take precedence over resolved locale keys
  • If the context contains resolved locale keys, use them
  • If the context does not contain resolved locale keys, read the first existing locale file in this order:
    1. <absolute-git-dir>/rules-for-ai/LOCALE.md
    2. <repo>/.rules-for-ai/LOCALE.md
    3. ~/.config/rules-for-ai/LOCALE.md
    4. Bundled LOCALE.default.md in one of these locations:
      • $CODEX_HOME/rules-for-ai/ for Codex user installations
      • <repo>/.agents/rules-for-ai/ for Codex project and local installations
      • <repo>/.cursor/rules-for-ai/ for Cursor project and local installations
      • The plugin root for other installations
  • Get <absolute-git-dir> with git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir
  • If no locale file exists, use en_US for all keys

Git

  • Use the hashiiiii-git skill for Git operations

Issues

  • Use the hashiiiii-issues skill for GitHub issue operations

Pull Requests

  • Use the hashiiiii-pull-request skill for GitHub pull request operations

Images

  • Use the hashiiiii-images skill to create image assets (logos, icons, favicons, and header images)
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 · 52 lines · 445 tokens per session scan A 8c278b6e4c13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository hashiiiii/rules-for-ai (10 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 445 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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.