terraform

terraform is a cursor rule for Cursor from iloveitaly/llm-ide-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (339 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Cursor rule set for Terraform configuration and project file structure. Terraform is a tool for describing and managing infrastructure with code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding edits to Terraform projects, including provider files, variables, remote state, worker settings, and commands defined in a Justfile.
Why use it?
It tells an agent how to handle secrets, modules, variables, outputs, and state files before changing infrastructure code. This helps prevent unsafe secret handling and inconsistent project structure.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for guiding edits to Terraform projects, including provider files, variables, remote state, worker settings, and commands defined in a Justfile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/iloveitaly/llm-ide-rules/terraform
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iloveitaly/llm-ide-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 339 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00339
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash c36dd71cc424, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform 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.

.cursor/rules/terraform.mdc · 27 lines

What it actually says

Terraform

  • All "bootstrap" secrets required to run the terraform code should be exported in the Justfile. The Justfile is guarded so agents cannot run it, ensuring that required secrets are not available to agents ensures that terraform cannot be run by an agent.
  • Don't add a locals for a variable only used a single time
  • Don't add output resources unless specifically asked
  • Use ~> 9.9.0 style provider version pinning
  • Consult the terraform MCP when using an external module. Module surfaces change often.
  • When creating a worker, always set the compatibility_date to the current date.
  • Add # sourced from ENV for any variable sourced from the ENV.
  • Uppercase all TF_VAR_*
  • Put locals at the top of the file
  • Reference Terraform-managed resources directly; add a data source only when a verified provider limitation requires it or the resource is managed elsewhere.

File Structure

  • mise.toml opentofu, environment variables, and other configuration required for terraform.
  • onepassword_secrets.tf extracts secrets from 1Password that are required to run the terraform code. Secrets should be pulled from here, and not ENV.
  • providers.tf defines the providers to use.
  • variables.tf defines "global" variables, including those sourced from the ENV.
  • deployment_state.tf stores the terraform state in a remote bucket.
  • Justfile contains the commands to run the terraform code. Never run it directly.
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 Changed · +2 lines c36dd71cc424
  2. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines 19dae35bd964
  3. 13d ago First seen · 24 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 39903965b612

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terraform is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository iloveitaly/llm-ide-rules (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 339 tokens. 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 2026-10-04.