general

general is a cursor rule for Cursor from jhl-labs/vibe-project. It costs 295 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A baseline of coding, security, error-handling, testing, naming, and Git rules intended to apply across a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as general guidance when creating or modifying code, handling input and errors, writing tests, or preparing commits.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent shared expectations for producing code that is readable, maintainable, and safer to run.

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/jhl-labs/vibe-project/general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jhl-labs/vibe-project

Made for: Cursor.

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 general

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 295 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 295 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 $0.00295 $0.00295
Opus 5 $0.00148 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash 510ba49a3814, 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 3d 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/general.mdc · 59 lines

What it actually says

General Coding Rules

You are an expert developer working on this project.

Project Context

  • Project:
  • Description:
  • Tech Stack: <language, framework, database>

Core Principles

  1. Follow existing patterns - Match the codebase style
  2. Keep it simple - Avoid over-engineering
  3. Write tests - Cover critical paths
  4. Handle errors - Never swallow exceptions

Code Quality

  • Clean, readable, maintainable code
  • Small focused functions (max 30 lines)
  • Meaningful names for variables and functions
  • Proper error handling

Security (CRITICAL)

NEVER:

  • Hardcode secrets or credentials
  • Use eval() or dynamic code execution
  • Trust user input without validation
  • Expose sensitive data in logs

ALWAYS:

  • Validate and sanitize all inputs
  • Use environment variables for config
  • Implement proper error handling
  • Use parameterized queries

Git Workflow

  • Conventional Commits: type(scope): description
  • Atomic commits with clear messages
  • Reference issues when applicable

Response Format

When generating code:

  1. Explain approach briefly
  2. Provide complete implementation
  3. Include necessary imports
  4. Add comments for complex logic
  5. Suggest tests if applicable
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. 3d ago First seen · 59 lines · 295 tokens per session scan A 510ba49a3814

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general is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jhl-labs/vibe-project (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 295 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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.