secret-hygiene

secret-hygiene is a cursor rule for coding agents from I4cTime/q-ring. It costs 286 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

Rules for keeping passwords, API keys, and other credentials out of source code, using q-ring instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking coding work for hardcoded credentials and requiring q-ring for secret storage and access.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of secrets being committed to version control or exposed in code. They also make secret handling consistent across projects.

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/i4ctime/q-ring/secret-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/I4cTime/q-ring

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for secret-hygiene

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/i4ctime/q-ring/secret-hygiene.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/i4ctime/q-ring/secret-hygiene)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/i4ctime/q-ring/secret-hygiene"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/i4ctime/q-ring/secret-hygiene.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 286 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 286 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00286 $0.00286
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00029

Measured 4d ago against content hash de3941aaf62a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secret-hygiene 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 4d 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-plugin/rules/secret-hygiene.mdc · 15 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 15 lines · 286 tokens per session scan A de3941aaf62a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

secret-hygiene is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository I4cTime/q-ring (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 286 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.