no-bullet-characters

A writing rule that requires Markdown dash lists and forbids Unicode bullet symbols.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever the agent writes lists in its output.
Why use it?
It keeps list formatting consistent and makes the intended Markdown source unambiguous.

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/noteplan/plugins/no-bullet-characters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 103 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 103 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00103 $0.00103
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured yesterday against content hash b06e43386df1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-bullet-characters 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 yesterday.

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/no-bullet-characters.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

List Style (No Bullet Characters)

Never use Unicode bullet characters (, , , etc.) in agent output.

Always write lists as Markdown: a hyphen/dash, then a space, then the item text (- ).

<!-- ❌ BAD -->
• First item
• Second item

<!-- ✅ GOOD -->
- First item
- Second item
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. yesterday First seen · 21 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A b06e43386df1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

no-bullet-characters is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository NotePlan/plugins (204 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.