general-comment-rules

general-comment-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from jlevy/speculate. It costs 12 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of general-comment-rules, MIT.

A set of general rules for an AI coding agent, stored in a Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Applying general comment and code-related practices during agent work.
Why use it?
It gives the agent shared guidance for handling coding tasks consistently.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Applying general comment and code-related practices during agent work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/jlevy/speculate/general-comment-rules
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/jlevy/speculate

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
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Per session 12 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 12 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.00012
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00005
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 24f97a93cae4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-comment-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to general-comment-rules — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/general-comment-rules.mdc · 1 lines

What it actually says

../../docs/general/agent-rules/general-comment-rules.md

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 · 1 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 24f97a93cae4

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general-comment-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jlevy/speculate (34 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to general-comment-rules, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.