rule_management

Formatting and content rules for writing Cursor rule files, which are instructions that guide an AI coding assistant in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating or editing rule files, documenting required practices, adding code examples, and referencing related project files.
Why use it?
They make rules predictable, specific, linked to relevant files, and easier for both people and the assistant to follow.

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/jpke/cursor-vibe-coding-template/rule_management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpke/cursor-vibe-coding-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 374 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 965962a2b546, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rule_management 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 2d 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/rule_management.mdc · 59 lines

What it actually says

Rule Structure Requirements

---
description: "Clear, one-line description of what the rule enforces"
globs: ["path/to/files/*.ext", "other/path/**/*"]
alwaysApply: boolean
---

- **Main Points in Bold**
  - Sub-points with details
  - Examples and explanations

File References

  • Use [filename](mdc:path/to/file) to reference files
  • Example: [prisma.mdc](mdc:.cursor/rules/prisma.mdc) for rule references
  • Example: [schema.prisma](mdc:prisma/schema.prisma) for code references

Code Examples

  • Use language-specific code blocks with DO/DON'T patterns:
// ✅ DO: Show good examples
const goodExample = true;

// ❌ DON'T: Show anti-patterns
const badExample = false;

Rule Content Guidelines

  • Start with high-level overview
  • Include specific, actionable requirements
  • Show examples of correct implementation
  • Reference existing code when possible
  • Keep rules DRY by referencing other rules
  • Use bullet points for clarity
  • Include both DO and DON'T examples

Example Pattern Recognition

// If you see repeated patterns like:
const data = await prisma.user.findMany({
  select: { id: true, email: true },
  where: { status: 'ACTIVE' }
});

// Consider adding to [prisma.mdc](mdc:.cursor/rules/prisma.mdc):
// - Standard select fields
// - Common where conditions
// - Performance optimization patterns

Follow this structure for proper rule formatting and maintain consistency across all rule files.

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. 2d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 965962a2b546

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rule_management is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jpke/cursor-vibe-coding-template (16 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 374 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.