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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/neuromechanist/research-skills/cursorrules)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/neuromechanist/research-skills/cursorrules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/neuromechanist/research-skills/cursorrules.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00170 | $0.00170 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00085 | $0.00085 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00034 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00017 |
Grade A, and why
cursorrules 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 4d 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.
What it actually says
Cursor Rules Configuration
Core Rules
- cursor-templates/core_rules/cursor_rules.mdc
- cursor-templates/core_rules/testing.mdc
- cursor-templates/core_rules/self_improve.mdc
- cursor-templates/core_rules/documentation.mdc
- cursor-templates/core_rules/ci_cd.mdc
Planning Approach
Default: Plan-based development (.context/plan.md)
- cursor-templates/planning/default/dev_workflow.mdc
Advanced: TaskMaster for complex multi-dependency projects
Uncomment to use:
- cursor-templates/planning/advanced-taskmaster/dev_workflow.mdc
- cursor-templates/planning/advanced-taskmaster/taskmaster_reference.mdc
Project-Specific Rules
Add your custom .mdc files here:
- project-rules/custom.mdc
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 21 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A d32190627aa4
cursorrules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (45 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 170 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-04.
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