project-standards

project-standards is a cursor rule for Cursor from jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules. It costs 4 tokens per session (194 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for organizing a software project and its documentation into standard folders and files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create README, changelog, and documentation folders, along with test, example, script, and tool directories and Python project metadata when needed.
Why use it?
It gives the project a predictable structure so contributors can find requirements, research, tests, examples, and configuration details.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It helps create README, changelog, and documentation folders, along with test, example, script, and tool directories and Python project metadata when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules/project-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/jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules/project-standards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules/project-standards.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 194 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 $0.00004 $0.00194
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00019

Measured 7d ago against content hash 60dd2e032479, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 7d 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/project-standards.mdc · 18 lines

What it actually says

  • Create top-level folder: docs/.
  • Create project README.md which summarizes the project.
  • Create project CHANGELOG.md which details changes for each version/feature-branch.
  • Create docs/README-DETAILS.md which details project features, usage, errors, dependencies, etc.
  • Create sub-folders under docs/: research/, plans/, specs/, issues/, apis/, notes/, configuration/.
  • For code projects, create top-level folders: tests/, examples/, scripts/, and tools/.
  • For code projects, create sub-folders under tests/: unit/, integration/, e2e/.
  • For Python projects, create modern, standardized pyproject.toml.
  • For Python projects, use CalVer versioning.
  • License shall be MIT.
  • Author and Maintainer shall be Jim Schilling.
  • Project base url shall be http://github.com/jim-schilling/[REPOSITORY].
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. 7d ago First seen · 18 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 60dd2e032479

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project-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jim-schilling/splurge-ai-rules (3 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 194 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.