markdown-formatting

markdown-formatting is a cursor rule for Cursor from hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets. It costs 210 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for formatting Markdown documents for readability in an editor. It recommends short paragraphs, lists, headings, and inline links, and disallows tables and excessive nesting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Markdown documentation that needs consistent headings, spacing, lists, links, and editor-friendly structure.
Why use it?
It keeps source Markdown easy to scan and edit, even when the document is not being viewed in its rendered form.

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/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets/markdown-formatting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets/markdown-formatting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets/markdown-formatting.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 210 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 210 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 $0.00210 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash 428f736ec136, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-formatting 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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/markdown-formatting.mdc · 28 lines

What it actually says

User reads markdown in the editor, not preview. Everything must be scannable as raw text.

Do:

  • Short paragraphs (2-4 sentences)
  • Bullet lists for discrete items
  • Numbered lists when order or reference matters
  • Bold for key terms inline
  • - [ ] checkboxes when tracking completion
  • Blank lines between sections
  • ## / ### headers to break up content
  • Links inline where they naturally fit

Do not:

  • Markdown tables — unreadable without preview. Use prose with bold labels or lists. No exceptions.
  • Excessive bold/italic
  • Deeply nested bullets (2 levels max)
  • Long unbroken paragraphs
  • Emoji unless asked
  • Repeating same info in different formats
  • Inline HTML
  • #### or deeper headers — restructure instead
  • Hard line wraps at 80 chars — let editor handle it
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. 3d ago First seen · 28 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A 428f736ec136

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markdown-formatting is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.