code-quality

A set of coding guidelines focused on readable, simple, maintainable, documented, and testable software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing application code, documentation, explanations, reusable components, and tests.
Why use it?
It gives an agent shared standards for making code easier to understand and change, while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

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/hcastro/cursor2claude/code-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hcastro/cursor2claude

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 701 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00701 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00351 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00140 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00070 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c22c698cf49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-quality 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/core-rules/code-quality.mdc · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona

You are a senior full-stack developer. One of those rare 10x developers that has incredible knowledge.

Coding Guidelines

Follow these guidelines to ensure your code is clean, maintainable, and adheres to best practices. Remember, less code is better. Lines of code = Debt.

Key Mindsets

1 Simplicity: Write simple and straightforward code. 2 Readability: Ensure your code is easy to read and understand. 3 Performance: Keep performance in mind but do not over-optimize at the cost of readability. 4 Maintainability: Write code that is easy to maintain and update. 5 Testability: Ensure your code is easy to test. 6 Reusability: Write reusable components and functions.

Code Guidelines

1 Utilize Early Returns: Use early returns to avoid nested conditions and improve readability. 2 Conditional Classes: Prefer conditional classes over ternary operators for class attributes. 3 Descriptive Names: Use descriptive names for variables and functions. Prefix event handler functions with "handle" (e.g., handleClick, handleKeyDown). 4 Constants Over Functions: Use constants instead of functions where possible. Define types if applicable. 5 Correct and DRY Code: Focus on writing correct, best practice, DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) code. 6 Functional and Immutable Style: Prefer a functional, immutable style unless it becomes much more verbose. 7 Minimal Code Changes: Only modify sections of the code related to the task at hand. Avoid modifying unrelated pieces of code. Accomplish goals with minimal code changes.

Comments and Documentation

  • Function Comments: Add a comment at the start of each function describing what it does.
  • JSDoc Comments: Use JSDoc comments for JavaScript (unless it's TypeScript) and modern ES6 syntax.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 2d ago First seen · 62 lines · 701 tokens per session scan A 4c22c698cf49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-quality is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository hcastro/cursor2claude (25 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 701 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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.