general

A set of general project rules for Python 3.11 and newer, including code style, type hints, documentation, file handling, testing, and commit names. A commit message records a change in version control using labels such as feat or fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever you add or edit project code, tests, documentation, dependencies, or version-control commits.
Why use it?
It keeps code, tests, formatting, and development habits consistent across the project and helps prevent secrets or unverified changes from being committed.

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/humzakt/dev-starter-kit/general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humzakt/dev-starter-kit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 274 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 274 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 $0.00274 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash 2cdc62b591c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general 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.

.cursor/rules/general.mdc · 36 lines

What it actually says

Project Conventions

Language & Runtime

  • Python 3.11+
  • Ruff for linting and formatting (configured in pyproject.toml)
  • pytest for testing

Code Style

  • 120 character line length
  • Double quotes for strings
  • Type hints on all public function signatures
  • Google-style docstrings for public functions and classes
  • Specific exception handling (no bare except:)
  • pathlib.Path over os.path
  • f-strings over .format() or %

Development Loop

After every code change:

  1. Run ruff check --fix . && ruff format . to fix lint issues
  2. Run pytest tests/ -v to verify tests pass
  3. If you changed source files in src/, ensure corresponding tests exist in tests/

Commit Messages

Use Conventional Commits: feat:, fix:, chore:, docs:, test:, refactor:, style:

Don'ts

  • Don't commit .env files or secrets
  • Don't add comments that merely narrate what code does
  • Don't create files unless absolutely necessary — prefer editing existing ones
  • Don't skip running tests after making changes
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 · 36 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A 2cdc62b591c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository humzakt/dev-starter-kit (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 274 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.