rule-update

rule-update is a cursor rule for Cursor from oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance guide for updating existing Cursor rules, which are standing instructions for an AI coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a rule’s usage, effectiveness, compatibility, and standards compliance, then refine or consolidate it.
Why use it?
It helps improve outdated or ineffective rules without losing their original purpose or creating unnecessary new rules.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions 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/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts/rule-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,658 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02658
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01329
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00266

Measured 6d ago against content hash 714efccbb996, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rule-update 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 6d 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/prompts/prompt-engineering/rule-update.mdc · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rule Update and Maintenance Guide

This prompt provides a systematic approach to updating existing Cursor rules, ensuring they remain strategically composed, standards-compliant, and effective while preserving their core value and preventing rule proliferation.

🎯 UPDATE OBJECTIVES:

  1. MAINTAIN rule effectiveness while improving strategic composition
  2. ALIGN with current standards and composition principles
  3. PRESERVE core constraints and user familiarity
  4. ENHANCE strategic cohesion through better rule composition
  5. PREVENT rule proliferation by identifying consolidation opportunities

📋 RULE UPDATE PROCESS:

STEP 1: Current State Assessment

Rule Analysis:
  • Current version - Document existing version and last update date
  • Usage patterns - How frequently is this rule applied and in what contexts?
  • Effectiveness metrics - Is the rule consistently followed by agents?
  • Integration status - How well does it work with other rules and prompts?
  • Standards compliance - Compare against current rule standards and composition principles
Strategic Composition Assessment:
  • Rule overlap analysis - Does this rule conflict or overlap with other rules?
  • Composition opportunities - Could this be merged with related rules for better cohesion?
  • Agent adherence rate - Do agents consistently apply this rule or ignore it?
  • Scope clarity - Is the rule's scope well-defined and appropriate?
  • Constraint effectiveness - Do the constraints actually improve outcomes?
Quality Baseline Measurement:
  • Standards compliance score - Rate against docs/standards/standards-rule.md
  • Strategic alignment score - How well does it fit the composition-over-proliferation principle?
  • Clarity and actionability - Can agents easily understand and apply the rule?
  • Integration score - How well it works with the current rule ecosystem
  • Effectiveness score - Does it prevent issues and improve outcomes?

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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. 6d ago First seen · 289 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 714efccbb996

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rule-update is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts (4 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,658 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.