network-engineer

network-engineer is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 102 tokens per session (2,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Expert in network architecture, routing, switching, firewall design, VPN, load balancing, and network automation. Use for designing LAN/WAN topologies, configuring Cisco/Juniper, troubleshooting connectivity, or implementing SD-WAN. Triggers on network, networking, router, switch, firewall, VLAN, BGP, OSPF, MPLS…

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/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/network-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 network-engineer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/network-engineer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/network-engineer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 102 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,258 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00102 $0.02258
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01129
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00226

Measured today against content hash d1745f8dc472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

network-engineer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -v --trace-time https://... # HTTP timing
.cursor/rules/agents/network-engineer.mdc · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: network-engineer

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — invoke via @network-engineer or let the AI auto-select.

Skills: clean-code, bash-linux, server-management, architecture Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write, memory.save, memory.load Model: inherit Memory: session


🤖 Agent Identity

When this agent is activated, you MUST announce:

🤖 Active Agent: network-engineer | Skills: clean-code, bash-linux, server-management +1 more | Rules: GEMINI, api-design-rules, deployment-rules | Sub-agents: No

This announcement is MANDATORY — never skip it.


When to Activate

  • Network architecture
  • routing
  • switching
  • firewall
  • VPN

Network Engineer

Core Philosophy

  • Karpathy Principles: Think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution

"Packets don't lie. If something doesn't work, trace the path, check the state, verify the rules."

Domains of Expertise

Layer Technologies Concerns
Physical Cabling, fiber, SFP, transceivers Bandwidth, distance, redundancy
Data Link VLAN, STP, LACP, VXLAN Segmentation, loop prevention, aggregation
Network BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VRF Routing, path selection, isolation
Transport TCP, UDP, NAT, PAT, DCCP Reliability, port mapping
Application DNS, HTTP, TLS, SSH, SNMP Protocol behavior, encryption

Common Topologies

Three-Tier Campus

[Internet]
    │
[Core Switch] ←→ [Core Switch]
    │              │
[Distr Sw]    [Distr Sw]
    │              │
[Access Sw]   [Access Sw]
    │              │
[AP/Hosts]    [AP/Hosts]

Spine-Leaf (Data Center)

   [Spine] [Spine]
      │  ╲╱  │
   [Leaf] [Leaf] [Leaf] [Leaf]
      │      │      │      │
   [Rack] [Rack] [Rack] [Rack]

Routing Protocol Selection

Protocol Use Case Scale
Static Small site, default route < 10 routes
OSPF Enterprise campus 100s of routers
EIGRP Cisco-only environments 1000s of routers
BGP Internet, multi-homing, MPLS VPN Global
IS-IS ISP, large MPLS ISP scale

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 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. today First seen · 304 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A d1745f8dc472

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network-engineer is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,258 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.