use-base-rules

use-base-rules is a cursor rule for Cursor from LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot. It costs 374 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule that tells coding agents to follow `docs/base-standards.md` as the single source for development guidance. The document covers coding, testing, language, backend, frontend, and documentation practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to direct agents to the repository’s official development rules before they start work. It helps apply requirements such as small tasks, test-driven development, type safety, and clear naming.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from following outdated or duplicated rule files. Keeping guidance in one place makes the required project standards easier to maintain.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to direct agents to the repository’s official development rules before they start work. It helps apply requirements such as small tasks, test-driven development, type safety, and clear naming.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/lidr-academy/lidr-specboot/use-base-rules
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/LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 374 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 374 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 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 5.1 $0.00374 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00187 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00037 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7f8751605efc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-base-rules 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 8d 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/use-base-rules.mdc · 37 lines

What it actually says

Use Base Development Rules

All AI agents working on this project must follow the comprehensive development rules and guidelines defined in:

📋 docs/base-standards.md

Key Directive

  • Single Source of Truth: All development rules, coding standards, testing practices, and workflow requirements are maintained in base-standards.md
  • No Rule Duplication: Do not reference or follow other rule files - base-standards.md contains the complete and authoritative rule set
  • Always Current: base-standards.md is the actively maintained configuration - other rule files may be outdated

What's Included in base-standards.md

  • Core Principles: Small tasks one at a time, Test-Driven Development (TDD), type safety, clear naming, incremental changes
  • Language Standards: English-only requirement for all technical artifacts
  • Specific Standards: Links to detailed standards for:
    • Backend development (API, database patterns, testing, security)
    • Frontend development (React components, UI/UX guidelines)
    • Documentation (structure, formatting, maintenance)

Compliance

Before starting any development work, agents must:

  1. Read and understand all rules in base-standards.md
  2. Follow the TDD process and core principles defined there
  3. Use the specified tools, testing frameworks, and standards
  4. Maintain the required code quality and type safety standards
  5. Refer to specific standards documents (backend, frontend, documentation) for detailed guidelines

Remember: base-standards.md is the complete development rulebook for this project.

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. 8d ago First seen · 37 lines · 374 tokens per session scan A 7f8751605efc

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use-base-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot (114 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 374 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-30.