english-developer-style

english-developer-style is a cursor rule for Cursor from Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages. It costs 0 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for writing American English in text aimed at software developers or software users. It covers documentation, code comments, interface text, errors, logs, and project communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, translating, editing, or reviewing READMEs, documentation, source-code comments, commits, pull requests, changelogs, localization files, or UI messages.
Why use it?
It helps keep English software text consistent, natural, and clear across files and development workflows.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when writing, translating, editing, or reviewing READMEs, documentation, source-code comments, commits, pull requests, changelogs, localization files, or UI messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/netcracker/qubership-ai-packages/english-developer-style
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/Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 757 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 $0.00000 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 77065463f554, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

english-developer-style 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 8d 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/english-developer-style.mdc · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill trigger: english-developer-style

You MUST invoke the english-developer-style skill BEFORE producing, modifying, translating, or critiquing any English developer-facing text. The skill applies regardless of text length — a one-line error message and a multi-page README go through the same checklist.

Trigger verbs

The skill fires on any of these tasks. The verb in the user request, not the file size, decides.

  • write, draft, author, compose
  • edit, rewrite, revise, polish, copy-edit
  • translate, localize (to or from English)
  • review, proofread, verify, audit, double-check, sanity-check, cross-check
  • "check the wording", "does this read well", "is this English natural", "make this sound less AI"

If the user asks about English developer text in any of these modes — even a human-authored draft, even a five-word button label — invoke the skill before answering.

Covered surfaces

  • Markdown: README, reference docs, design docs, ADR, runbooks, changelog, release notes.
  • Source files (.go, .js, .ts, .py, .java, .rs, .kt, .cs, .cpp, .rb, .swift, .scala, .php, ...): all English text inside them — code comments, docstrings (Javadoc, KDoc, TSDoc, JSDoc, Python docstrings, Rust doc-comments), and the English identifier names you choose for new functions, types, fields, files, and tests.
  • Localization files (English source or English target): .po, .pot, .properties, .resx, .json (i18n), .ftl, .arb.
  • UI strings: buttons, labels, placeholders, tooltips, empty states, confirmations.
  • Error, validation, warning, and log messages (including one-line msgid / msgstr).
  • Commit messages, PR / MR descriptions, code-review replies.

Short messages count. A single msgstr "..." in a .po file, a one-line // FIXME: … comment in a .go file, or a three-word button label is in scope.

When NOT to invoke

  • Existing code identifiers, product names, CLI flags, file paths, environment variables — do not translate, restyle, or rename them. (When you choose a new identifier name, that choice is in scope; see Covered surfaces.)
  • Generated API references and verbatim third-party quotes.
  • Files explicitly marked "do not edit" or covered by a repository-specific style guide — yield to the local guide.
  • Casual chat replies to the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 8d ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 77065463f554

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english-developer-style is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 757 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 2026-08-31.