02-python-standards

A set of project rules for Python 3.12 or newer, including dependency handling, type checks, validation, logging and safe file updates. It is intended for the Matryca Plumber codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing Python code, configuration or JSON boundaries, especially code that reads and writes Markdown files in the background.
Why use it?
It keeps Python changes consistent and helps prevent type errors, crashes from empty files and accidental overwrites while files are being edited.

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/marcoporcellato/matryca-plumber/02-python-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarcoPorcellato/matryca-plumber

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 329 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00329
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0e7d00cc6fd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

02-python-standards 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.

.cursor/rules/02-python-standards.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

Dependency management and developer experience

  • Dependency Management & DX: Strictly use uv (never pip).
  • Always instruct the user to run make check to validate code (formatting, linting, mypy strict, pytest). Code is not ready until all tests pass with zero warnings.

Runtime and quality

  • Python: target 3.12+.
  • Types: annotate public APIs; mypy must type-check the package on --strict mode.
  • Validation: use Pydantic models for config, JSON payloads, and boundaries.
  • Architecture: layer boundaries and Clean Code checklist — see 12-clean-code-architecture.mdc and docs/CLEAN_CODE_ARCHITECTURE.md.

Concurrency and I/O (File System Safety)

  • Optimistic Concurrency: Matryca runs in the background. Before overwriting any .md file, you MUST check if the file's mtime has changed since it was read. Use atomic_write_bytes_if_unchanged to prevent data loss if the user is typing in Logseq.
  • Zero-Byte / Ghost Files: Always implement early-exit guards for empty or whitespace-only files to prevent crashes.

Observability

  • Use structured logging via loguru.
  • Do not log full note bodies to stdout.
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 · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0e7d00cc6fd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

02-python-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MarcoPorcellato/matryca-plumber (96 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 329 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 2026-08-30.