ansible-template

ansible-template is a cursor rule for Cursor from lsampaioweb/ai-instructions. It costs 0 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for Jinja2 templates used by Ansible roles. Jinja2 is a template language that fills values and repeats or omits sections when generating configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing Ansible templates with safe defaults, conditional sections, loops, and variable-based secrets.
Why use it?
It reduces rendering errors and keeps optional values, comments, lookups, and secrets handled safely.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for writing Ansible templates with safe defaults, conditional sections, loops, and variable-based secrets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/ansible-template
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/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 288 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00288
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00029

Measured 14d ago against content hash a885c7381015, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ansible-template 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 14d 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/ansible-template.mdc · 27 lines

What it actually says

Ansible Jinja2 Template Contract

Naming Conventions

  • Name template files after the destination filename and add the .j2 suffix (for example smb.conf.j2, sshd_config.j2).

Rules

  • Use {{ var | default('') }} for optional string variables.
  • Use {{ var | default([]) }} for optional list variables.
  • Use {# comment #} for comments that must not appear in the rendered file.
  • Use the target file format's native comment syntax for comments that must appear in the rendered output.
  • Place {% if %}, {% for %}, {% endif %}, and {% endfor %} tags on their own lines.
  • Use loop.last and loop.first for conditional rendering inside loops.
  • Resolve complex expressions in task vars: before passing to the template (including lookups, jinja2 filters, or multi-step variable derivations).

Safety Guards

  • Never embed vault secrets or credential literals in template content; reference them only through variables.
  • Never call {{ lookup() }} inside a template; resolve lookups in the calling task.
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. 14d ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a885c7381015

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ansible-template is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository lsampaioweb/ai-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 288 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 2026-10-04.