debugging-standards

debugging-standards is a cursor rule for Cursor from ivangrynenko/cursorrules. It costs 239 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-checking rule for debugging and error handling in PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, JSX, TSX, and Python projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find statements such as console.log, print_r, and var_dump, and to review catch blocks for proper handling and useful logs.
Why use it?
It helps remove temporary debug output and catches empty error handlers that can hide failures.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to find statements such as console.log, print_r, and var_dump, and to review catch blocks for proper handling and useful logs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ivangrynenko/cursorrules/debugging-standards
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivangrynenko/cursorrules

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 239 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 239 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00239 $0.00239
Opus 5.5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f99427d76476, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-standards 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 1mo 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/debugging-standards.mdc · 38 lines

What it actually says

Debugging Standards

Ensures proper debugging practices and error handling.

Rule Details

  • Name: debugging_standards

  • Description: Enforce standards for debugging and error handling

Filters

  • file extension pattern: \\.(php|js|ts|vue|jsx|tsx|py)$

Enforcement Checks

  • Conditions:
    • pattern console\\.log\\(|print_r\\(|var_dump\\( – Replace debug statements with proper logging
    • pattern catch\\s*\\([^)]*\\)\\s*\\{\\s*\\} – Implement proper error handling in catch blocks

Suggestions

  • Guidance: Debugging Best Practices:
  • Address root causes, not symptoms
  • Add descriptive logging messages
  • Create isolated test functions
  • Implement comprehensive error handling
  • Use appropriate logging levels
  • Add context to error messages
  • Consider debugging tools integration

Metadata

  • Priority: high
  • Version: 1.1
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. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A f99427d76476

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debugging-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ivangrynenko/cursorrules (88 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.