git

Rules for using Git, the version-control system that records code changes, together with a project activity log. They define how to create branches, prepare pull requests, and request confirmation before committing or pushing changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help developers create task branches, update the main branch, record work in docs/ACTIVITY.md, stage and commit changes after approval, push approved branches, and open pull requests.
Why use it?
They prevent accidental commits or uploads and keep project history and activity records consistent. They also make it clear how changes should move toward review.

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/parzival1l/altru/git
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parzival1l/Altru

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 590 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 $0.00018 $0.00590
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured yesterday against content hash 8d400bbc0902, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git 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/git.mdc · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Altru — Git and Activity Logging

When to use this rule: Whenever you finish a task, touch versioned project files, or the user asks about history or commits.

Branch-First (Pull Requests)

For changes intended for GitHub as a PR:

  1. git fetch origin and check out main, git pull to start current.
  2. git checkout -b cursor/<short-description> — informative name, prefix cursor/ for agent-driven work.
  3. Make edits, then stage / commit only after explicit user confirmation.
  4. After commit, git push -u origin <branch> only after explicit user confirmation, then open a PR (compare → main).

Exception: Direct commits on main only when the user explicitly requests it (e.g. hotfix). Still requires confirmation before git commit / git push.

Commit and Push Rules

  • Never run git add / git commit without explicit user confirmation each time.
  • Never run git push without explicit user confirmation each time. No auto-push.
  • Multiple prompts without committing is normal — do not assume the user wants to commit.
  • After completing substantive work, ask whether to commit (offer a suggested message). If declined, continue; ask again after the next batch of changes.
  • Commit and push are always separate offers unless the user explicitly says both in one message.

Typical Flow

  1. Finish task → update docs/ACTIVITY.md.
  2. Ask whether to stage and commit now (suggest a message). Wait for confirmation.
  3. If they commit and want remote updated → ask again separately before git push.

docs/ACTIVITY.md Entries

Append a timestamped entry to docs/ACTIVITY.md after every substantive set of changes.

Entry Format

## YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM ET — [brief title]

- **Files:** `path/one`, `path/two`
- **What:** …
- **Why:** …
- **Commands:** … (or "none")

Time: Always include clock time in US Eastern Time with suffix ET. Get current time: TZ=America/New_York date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 8d400bbc0902

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository parzival1l/Altru (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 590 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.