general-principles

general-principles is a cursor rule for Codex from KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder. It costs 953 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project rules for MagicTheOfflining, an offline-first React Native app for managing Magic: The Gathering Commander decks. It describes how the app stores and imports data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide code and design decisions involving offline storage, Moxfield page scraping, local data, and the app's scope.
Why use it?
It keeps development focused on a simple personal app that works offline and treats local files and SQLite as the main source of truth.

Cursor rule for Codex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/kaelsensei/magicaibuilder/general-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder

Made for: Codex.

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When invoked 953 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00953 $0.00953
Opus 5 $0.00477 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00191 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00095 $0.00095

Measured 4d ago against content hash 43561fa2f1f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-principles 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 4d 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.

.agents/rules/general-principles.mdc · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Principles and Project Philosophy

These rules define the core philosophy and mental model for MagicTheOfflining - a personal, offline-first React Native app for managing Magic: The Gathering Commander decks.

Project Philosophy

  • This is a personal project, not production-grade enterprise software
  • Prefer simple solutions over clever ones
  • Avoid over-engineering
  • If something can be done locally, do it locally
  • Always assume the app must work offline
  • This project is supposed to be fun, useful, and easy to maintain
  • Keep it dumb. Keep it working. 😄

Mental Model

Cursor must assume:

  • Scraping is allowed and mastered - HTML scraping and DOM parsing are core skills
  • Data comes from unreliable HTML - Moxfield page structure must be understood, and data must be normalized
  • Everything important is stored locally - SQLite and local filesystem are the source of truth
  • Moxfield is read-only - Scraping only, no synchronization back to Moxfield

This app is:

  • Offline - Works without internet after initial import
  • Personal - No user accounts, no cloud sync, no authentication
  • Fast - Prioritize speed and readability
  • Simple - Functional screens > beautiful screens

If a suggestion violates one of these → don't do it.

Tech Stack Constraints

  • Platform: React Native (Android first)
  • Language: TypeScript (preferred) or JavaScript
  • Local database: SQLite
  • Scraping: HTML scraping (no official API)
  • Image handling: local filesystem caching
  • No backend server
  • No authentication
  • No cloud sync

Cursor must assume it fully masters:

  • HTML scraping and DOM parsing
  • Moxfield page structure and patterns
  • SQLite usage in React Native
  • Local file storage for images

If a suggestion requires a backend, cloud service, or external API → reject it.

Data Rules

  • English card names only
  • Commander decks only
  • Moxfield is read-only (scraping only)
  • No synchronization back to Moxfield

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 130 lines · 953 tokens per session scan A 43561fa2f1f2

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general-principles is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 953 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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.