documentation-standards

A set of rules for keeping instructions and reference material accurate when software behavior, setup, integrations, or operations change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides updates to README files, API examples, runbooks, architecture decision records, and release notes, including commands and troubleshooting details.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation from becoming misleading or unusable after code and configuration changes.

Cursor rule

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/jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp/documentation-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp
Per session 262 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 262 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 $0.00262 $0.00262
Opus 5 $0.00131 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash df7bb08d38de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentation-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 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.

rules/documentation-standards.mdc · 27 lines

What it actually says

Documentation Standards

Documentation is part of delivery when behavior, operation, or integration changes. Keep it close to the thing it explains.

Update Documentation When

  • User-facing behavior, setup, configuration, API contracts, permissions, deployment, or operations change.
  • A new workflow, feature flag, environment variable, dependency, migration, or integration is introduced.
  • A bug fix changes expected behavior or removes a known limitation.

Minimum Artifacts

  • README or getting-started docs for setup, local development, and common commands.
  • API docs or contract examples for request, response, error, and auth changes.
  • Runbooks for operational tasks, incidents, migrations, rollback, and manual support procedures.
  • ADRs for important architecture choices.
  • Release notes for user-visible changes, breaking changes, migrations, and known risks.

Quality Bar

  • Documentation must be accurate, concise, and executable by someone who did not write the change.
  • Include commands, environment variables, expected outputs, and troubleshooting notes when relevant.
  • Do not duplicate source-of-truth configuration or type definitions in prose unless there is a sync check.
  • Remove obsolete docs in the same change that makes them obsolete.
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 · 27 lines · 262 tokens per session scan A df7bb08d38de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentation-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 262 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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.