always

always is a cursor rule for Cursor from maccman/ai-expo-starter-template. It costs 169 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow rule requiring a written development plan and the user's approval before code is changed. It also defines checks to run after TypeScript work and says not to start a development server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing or modifying code. It guides planning, approval, TypeScript checks, lint fixes, and the handoff after the work is complete.
Why use it?
It gives the user a chance to review the approach before implementation and keeps the development process predictable.

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/ai-expo-starter-template/always
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maccman/ai-expo-starter-template

Made for: Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for always

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 169 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 169 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 5.1 $0.00169 $0.00169
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6046a7c30d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

always 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 5d 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/always.mdc · 20 lines

What it actually says

IMPORTANT: Development cycle

  1. Before writing any code, come up with an extremely good plan, review the plan, and then ask the user for permission to execute the plan.
  2. Then PAUSE and ask the user for permission to execute the plan.
  3. Once the plan has completed, suggest areas of improvement and refactoring.

Notes

  • To check Typescript changes run: pnpm typecheck and pnpm lint
  • If there are any Typescript linting errors, run pnpm fix before attempting to fix the errors yourself.
  • Never try to start a dev server - prompt the user to do this.

REMEMBER you must always come up with a plan, and get sign off from the user, BEFORE writing any code.

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. 5d ago First seen · 20 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 6046a7c30d36

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always is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository maccman/ai-expo-starter-template (4 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.