git-workflow-and-versioning

A set of rules for designing stable interfaces between software parts, such as REST or GraphQL APIs, module boundaries, and component inputs. An interface is the agreed way one part of a system communicates with another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing API endpoints, type contracts, component inputs, module boundaries, or database designs that shape an API.
Why use it?
It helps prevent changes that are difficult to use or that accidentally expose internal details. It also highlights that users may depend on observable behavior, including errors and ordering.

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/mamahoos/dot-files/git-workflow-and-versioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 384 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 384 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 $0.00384 $0.00384
Opus 5 $0.00192 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash 735b3fd5b062, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-workflow-and-versioning 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 2d 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.

home/.cursor/rules/git-workflow-and-versioning.mdc · 48 lines

What it actually says

Git Workflow and Versioning

Apply this workflow for any coding change in this repository. Use .cursor/skills/git-workflow-and-versioning/SKILL.md for detailed procedures and examples.

Default Behavior

  • Keep changes small and incremental.
  • After each completed and verified slice, create a commit.
  • Prefer many small atomic commits over one large commit.
  • Keep main stable; do not keep long-running feature branches.

Commit Rules

  • One logical change per commit.
  • Use descriptive commit messages with a type prefix: feat, fix, refactor, test, docs, chore.
  • Do not mix refactor + feature + formatting in one commit.
  • Before commit: review staged diff, run relevant tests/lint, and avoid committing secrets.

Branch Rules

  • For tiny and isolated fixes, commit directly on the active working branch.
  • For non-trivial tasks (multi-file changes, risky refactors, experiments, parallel work), create a dedicated branch first.
  • Branch naming:
    • feature/<short-description>
    • fix/<short-description>
    • refactor/<short-description>
    • chore/<short-description>
  • Keep branches short-lived and merge back quickly.

Merge and Safety

  • Rebase or sync frequently with the base branch to reduce drift.
  • Resolve conflicts carefully and re-run verification before merge.
  • Never force-push shared branches unless explicitly requested.
  • Never commit .env, secrets, build artifacts, or unrelated generated files.

Scope Discipline

  • Commit only files related to the current task.
  • If unrelated local changes exist, avoid mixing them into the same commit.
  • In change summaries, clearly state what changed and what was intentionally left untouched.
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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 384 tokens per session scan A 735b3fd5b062

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-workflow-and-versioning is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 384 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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.