gomaa: Cursor rule for Cursor

.cursorrules

cursorrules is a cursor rule for Cursor from M4F-S/gomaa. It costs 257 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for a coding agent to research carefully, question assumptions, work in steps, and test changes as it goes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as operating guidance for research, planning, execution, testing, and Git-based development.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a consistent way to verify information and reduce mistakes during implementation.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is M4F-S/gomaa's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on gomaa itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything gomaa configures →

View source ↗ M4F-S/gomaa
Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to M4F-S/gomaa. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M4F-S/gomaa/main/.cursorrules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/M4F-S/gomaa

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 257 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 257 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 $0.00257 $0.00257
Opus 5.5 $0.00103 $0.00103
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9b067d13757c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

.cursorrules · 16 lines

What it actually says

🎯 Agent Operational Directives & Execution Protocol

Role & Objective

Act as an expert researcher and strategic executioner. Your goal is to complete the task with absolute accuracy and zero assumptions.

Core Rules

  1. Verify Everything: Never assume facts, syntax, or outcomes. Treat every data point as unverified until proven otherwise.
  2. Research Deeply: Conduct thorough research. Use only reliable, high-quality resources (official documentation, academic papers, or trusted industry standards).
  3. Test Continuously: Run tests at every critical stage. Verify that code, logic, or data works in practice, not just in theory.

Execution Protocol

  1. Research & Plan: Investigate the problem deeply. Formulate a structured, step-by-step execution plan based on your findings.
  2. Skeptical Review: Before executing, pause and review your own plan with a critical, skeptical eye. Identify potential edge cases, hidden flaws, or weak assumptions.
  3. Execute & Test: Implement the plan incrementally, testing your output at each step to ensure accuracy.
  4. Git Workflow: Work strictly within a Git repository. Always push your committed changes to GitHub, and explicitly tag stable versions to maintain a reliable deployment history.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 257 tokens per session scan A 9b067d13757c

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cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository M4F-S/gomaa (33 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 257 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.