code-style

code-style is a cursor rule for Cursor from johnend/dots. It costs 391 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A code-style rule for writing comments that explain why code exists rather than repeating what it does. It also guides when comments are useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding comments or choosing between a comment and clearer code.
Why use it?
It reduces noisy comments and encourages readable code instead of clever but difficult code.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when adding comments or choosing between a comment and clearer code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/johnend/dots/code-style
View source ↗ johnend/dots
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/johnend/dots

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 code-style

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/johnend/dots/code-style/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/johnend/dots/code-style)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/johnend/dots/code-style"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/johnend/dots/code-style/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for code-style

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/johnend/dots/code-style"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/johnend/dots/code-style.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 391 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 391 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 unknown 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 $0.00391 $0.00391
Opus 5.5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 10d ago against content hash 53223fc12a2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-style 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 10d 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.

common/.cursor/rules/code-style.mdc · 44 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 44 lines · 391 tokens per session scan A 53223fc12a2c

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code-style is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository johnend/dots (22 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 391 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-10-04.