cursorrules

A project rule set and Telegram bridge for controlling AI coding agents from a phone or another device while they run on your computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect Telegram with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini CLI, or Amp, and to follow their progress remotely.
Why use it?
It lets you monitor and direct coding work when you are away from the terminal, while keeping the agent on your own machine.

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/littlebearapps/untether/cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/littlebearapps/untether

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 487 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 487 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 $0.00487 $0.00487
Opus 5 $0.00244 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00097 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00049 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash 80daade9bdf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cursorrules 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursorrules · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Untether — Cursor Rules

Telegram bridge for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini CLI, Amp). Lets users control agents from their phone or any device — agents run on the user's machine while they're away from the terminal.

Stack & conventions

  • Python 3.12+, anyio for async, msgspec for JSONL parsing, structlog for logging
  • Ruff for linting/formatting, pytest + anyio for testing (80% coverage threshold)
  • Australian English in user-facing text (realise, colour, behaviour, licence)
  • Conventional commits: feat:, fix:, docs:, refactor:, test:

Architecture

Telegram <-> TelegramPresenter <-> RunnerBridge <-> Runner
                                       |
                                  ProgressTracker
  • Runners (src/untether/runners/) — engine subprocess managers
  • RunnerBridge (src/untether/runner_bridge.py) — connects runners to transport
  • TelegramPresenter (src/untether/telegram/bridge.py) — message rendering
  • Commands (src/untether/telegram/commands/) — Telegram command handlers
  • Schemas (src/untether/schemas/) — msgspec structs for JSONL decoding

Key rules

  • Runner 3-event contract: StartedEvent → ActionEvent(s) → CompletedEvent (always)
  • Use EventFactory for event construction, never construct dataclasses directly
  • ALL Telegram writes go through TelegramOutbox (never call Bot API directly)
  • Callback data max 64 bytes (Telegram-enforced)
  • Use anyio (not raw asyncio), msgspec.Struct (not dataclasses for schemas)

Testing

  • Stub subprocess runners with fake CLI scripts
  • FakeTransport protocol doubles (not real Telegram clients)
  • Verify 3-event contract in runner tests
  • Run: uv run pytest, uv run ruff check src/

Key files

  • runners/claude.py — Claude Code runner with interactive features
  • runner_bridge.py — Runner-to-transport bridge
  • cost_tracker.py — Per-run/daily cost tracking
  • telegram/bridge.py — Telegram message rendering
  • commands/claude_control.py — Approve/Deny/Discuss callback handler
  • commands/stats.py — /stats session statistics
  • commands/auth.py — /auth Codex device re-authentication
  • markdown.py — Progress/final message formatting

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 487 tokens per session scan A 80daade9bdf4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository littlebearapps/untether (66 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 487 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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.