ebpf-safety-rules

ebpf-safety-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Safety and engineering rules for eBPF, a technology that runs small programs in the Linux kernel for tasks such as networking and observability. They cover kernel verification, memory bounds, modern libraries, and safe communication with user-space programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when writing eBPF programs, packet-processing code, kernel event handling, or eBPF code that exchanges data with a regular application.
Why use it?
They help prevent eBPF code from being rejected by the kernel verifier or accessing memory unsafely.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use them when writing eBPF programs, packet-processing code, kernel event handling, or eBPF code that exchanges data with a regular application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/j4flmao/agent-skills/ebpf-safety-rules
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 342 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 $0.00023 $0.00342
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00137
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf71ca467664, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ebpf-safety-rules 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/ebpf-safety-rules.mdc · 23 lines

What it actually says

eBPF Safety & Engineering Standards

Cursor/AI MUST follow these rules when writing eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) code.

1. Verifier Compliance is Absolute

  • Rule: All eBPF C code MUST pass the kernel Verifier.
  • Action:
    • Strictly avoid unbounded for or while loops. Always use bounded loops (e.g., #pragma unroll).
    • Explicitly bounds-check all pointer accesses. If reading from a packet in XDP, you MUST check if (data + offset > data_end) return XDP_DROP; before accessing the memory.

2. Modern Stack (CO-RE and libbpf)

  • Rule: NEVER generate legacy BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) python scripts unless explicitly mandated by the user.
  • Action: Always generate modern eBPF code using libbpf and BPF Type Format (BTF) to guarantee Compile-Once-Run-Everywhere (CO-RE).

3. State Management (eBPF Maps)

  • Rule: eBPF programs cannot use global dynamic state.
  • Action: Use BPF Maps (e.g., BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH or BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF) to communicate safely between the kernel context and the user-space orchestrator. Prefer RINGBUF over PERF_EVENT_ARRAY for high-throughput event streaming.
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 · 23 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A bf71ca467664

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ebpf-safety-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (33 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.