privacy-first

privacy-first is a cursor rule for coding agents from paladini/mcp-me. It costs 0 tokens per session (181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for handling personal profile files used by mcp-me. It states that these files stay on the local computer and are not uploaded to cloud services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing mcp-me profile YAML files, validating their format, or regenerating profile data from the configured public APIs.
Why use it?
It makes the storage boundary clear when editing identity, career, skills, interests, goals, or project information. It also points to commands for checking and refreshing the files.

Cursor rule

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/paladini/mcp-me/privacy-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paladini/mcp-me

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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 privacy-first

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 181 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 $0.00000 $0.00181
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured 4d ago against content hash 761fad4d6d78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

privacy-first 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.

rules/privacy-first.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

When editing mcp-me profile YAML files:

  • All profile data stays local in ~/.mcp-me (or MCP_ME_PROFILE_DIR) — nothing is uploaded to any cloud.
  • Profile files are: identity.yaml, career.yaml, skills.yaml, interests.yaml, personality.yaml, goals.yaml, projects.yaml, faq.yaml.
  • Configuration lives in .mcp-me.yaml (generators and plugins) — separate from profile data.
  • Run mcp-me validate after edits to check schema compliance.
  • Run mcp-me generate to refresh profile data from public APIs listed in .mcp-me.yaml.
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. 4d ago First seen · 13 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 761fad4d6d78

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privacy-first is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paladini/mcp-me (18 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 181 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 2026-08-30.