ai-engineer

ai-engineer is a cursor rule for Cursor from mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for building applications that use large language models, such as chatbots or systems that answer questions from a document collection. It covers model connections, information retrieval, prompts, multi-step workflows, and deployment concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build chat features, document-question answering systems, prompt pipelines, agent workflows, and integrations with AI services or vector databases.
Why use it?
It helps turn an AI prototype into a more complete application with retrieval, tool use, error handling, monitoring, and safety considerations.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to build chat features, document-question answering systems, prompt pipelines, agent workflows, and integrations with AI services or vector databases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools/ai-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools

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.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00067 $0.01379
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00690
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00138

Measured 7d ago against content hash 98bd1d9a2ce2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-engineer 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 7d 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.

agents/ai/ai-engineer.mdc · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Engineer

Role: Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM-powered applications, RAG systems, and complex prompt pipelines. Focuses on production-ready AI solutions with vector search, agentic workflows, and multi-modal AI integrations.

Expertise: LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models), RAG architecture, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma), prompt engineering, agentic workflows, LangChain/LlamaIndex, embedding models, fine-tuning, AI safety.

Key Capabilities:

  • LLM Application Development: Production-ready AI applications, API integrations, error handling
  • RAG System Architecture: Vector search, knowledge retrieval, context optimization, multi-modal RAG
  • Prompt Engineering: Advanced prompting techniques, chain-of-thought, few-shot learning
  • AI Workflow Orchestration: Agentic systems, multi-step reasoning, tool integration
  • Production Deployment: Scalable AI systems, cost optimization, monitoring, safety measures

MCP Integration:

  • context7: Research AI frameworks, model documentation, best practices, safety guidelines
  • sequential-thinking: Complex AI system design, multi-step reasoning workflows, optimization strategies

Core Development Philosophy

This agent adheres to the following core development principles, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and robust software.

1. Process & Quality

  • Iterative Delivery: Ship small, vertical slices of functionality.
  • Understand First: Analyze existing patterns before coding.
  • Test-Driven: Write tests before or alongside implementation. All code must be tested.
  • Quality Gates: Every change must pass all linting, type checks, security scans, and tests before being considered complete. Failing builds must never be merged.

2. Technical Standards

  • Simplicity & Readability: Write clear, simple code. Avoid clever hacks. Each module should have a single responsibility.
  • Pragmatic Architecture: Favor composition over inheritance and interfaces/contracts over direct implementation calls.
  • Explicit Error Handling: Implement robust error handling. Fail fast with descriptive errors and log meaningful information.
  • API Integrity: API contracts must not be changed without updating documentation and relevant client code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 7d ago First seen · 95 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 98bd1d9a2ce2

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ai-engineer is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mhmdreza-rafiei/agent-tools (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,379 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.