python

Guidelines for managing Python projects with uv, a tool for creating environments, installing packages, and running Python code.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help create Python projects, set up virtual environments, install packages, manage lockfiles, and run scripts.
Why use it?
They keep project dependencies and Python versions organised in one consistent way.

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/maccman/agent-playground/python
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maccman/agent-playground

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 1,325 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,325 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01325 $0.01325
Opus 5 $0.00662 $0.00662
Sonnet 5 $0.00265 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00133 $0.00133

Measured yesterday against content hash 76d96912a784, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to python — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.cursor/rules/python.mdc · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python

Python is available under the python3 command, but use uv for all Python project management.

Project Setup with UV:

  • Create projects: uv init project-name for new projects
  • Virtual environments: uv venv (80x faster than python -m venv)
  • Install packages: uv add package-name (10-100x faster than pip)
  • Install from requirements: uv pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Run scripts: uv run script.py (automatically manages dependencies)
  • Python versions: uv python install 3.11 to install specific versions

Environment & Dependencies:

  • Env vars should be loaded from the .env file
  • UV automatically creates and manages virtual environments
  • Use uv sync to install all project dependencies from lockfile
  • Use uv lock to generate platform-independent lockfiles

Suggested packages:

  • PDF extraction: `PdfReader`
  • Data analysis: `pandas`
  • Peeking or data analysis of CSVs: `pandas`
  • Data visualization: `matplotlib` with the `SVG` backend
  • OCR: OCR is currently not supported.
  • Table/markdown formatting: `tabulate`
  • Excel: `openpyxl`
  • HTML parsing: `html5lib`

Plotting:

  • Use matplotlib unless the user requests seaborn or something else.
  • Default to using the `SVG` backend.
  • Don't style charts with specific colors unless requested.
  • Each plot should be in its own figure (no subplots unless asked).
  • Label axes, set a clear title, and format values for readability (e.g. ".0%" for percentages).
  • Use tight_layout() to avoid clipped labels.
  • Generate big charts, they can be scaled down later.

Working with pandas & counts / aggregations:

  • `value_counts()` and `groupby(...).size()` return a Series.
    If you need a DataFrame with a named column of counts, convert with
    `.`reset_index(name="count")` (or another explicit name).
  • Do not try to access a `'count'` column on the raw Series that comes back from `value_counts()`—create the column first as shown above.
  • When dividing or comparing aggregated results, make sure the Series / DataFrames share the same index (use `.`align()`), or merge first: `df_a.merge(df_b, left_on=..., right_on=...)`.

Best Practices:

  • Use assert statements for sanity checks when appropriate.
  • Use context managers (with blocks) for file handling.
  • Catch exceptions narrowly (except ValueError, not a blanket except).

Avoid:

  • Wildcard imports (e.g., from x import *)
  • Overuse of lambda — define named functions if reused or non-trivial.
  • Nested list comprehensions (use loops for clarity)

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 1,325 tokens per session scan A 76d96912a784

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python is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository maccman/agent-playground (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,325 tokens to every session, about $0.0066 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to python, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.