no-emoji

no-emoji is a cursor rule for Cursor from JoshJancula/ralph. It costs 210 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule requiring plain text without emojis in project comments, logs, documentation, code strings, and suggested commit messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enforce emoji-free comments, logs, READMEs, documentation, code, and commit messages.
Why use it?
It keeps project text consistent and avoids decorative characters in technical artifacts.

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/joshjancula/ralph/no-emoji
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoshJancula/ralph

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 no-emoji

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/joshjancula/ralph/no-emoji.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/joshjancula/ralph/no-emoji)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/joshjancula/ralph/no-emoji"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/joshjancula/ralph/no-emoji.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 210 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 210 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 $0.00210 $0.00210
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 5d ago against content hash ebb634217466, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-emoji 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 5d 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.

bundle/.cursor/rules/no-emoji.mdc · 19 lines

What it actually says

No emojis

  • Do not use emojis in any project artifact.
  • This applies to:
    • Comments (inline, block, JSDoc, etc.)
    • Log messages (logger calls, error messages, debug strings)
    • READMEs and documentation (including README.md, docs, and other markdown)
    • Code (string literals, UI labels, test descriptions, commit messages you suggest)
  • Use plain text only (ASCII or normal punctuation). Prefer clear wording instead of emoji for emphasis or status.
  • When editing or generating files, strip any emojis from existing content you touch, and never add new ones.
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. 5d ago First seen · 19 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A ebb634217466

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no-emoji is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository JoshJancula/ralph (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.