yes-no-questions

yes-no-questions is a cursor rule for Cursor from paulbaranowski/wild-horses. It costs 327 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for asking questions with discrete yes-or-no decisions. It requires numbered questions and uses “no” to represent the alternative choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing user prompts for approvals, confirmations, and other choices where each branch can be expressed as a yes-or-no question.
Why use it?
It makes approval and decision points easier to answer without ambiguous either-or wording. It also gives each decision a clear, separate number.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Writing user prompts for approvals, confirmations, and other choices where each branch can be expressed as a yes-or-no question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/paulbaranowski/wild-horses/yes-no-questions
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulbaranowski/wild-horses

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 327 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 327 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00327 $0.00327
Opus 5 $0.00163 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8157a6e89704, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yes-no-questions 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 12d 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.

plugins/yes-no-questions-hook/rules/yes-no-questions.mdc · 7 lines

What it actually says

When asking the user a question with discrete choices, ask it as numbered yes/no questions (1./2./3.), one per line, no bullet glyphs. Collapse every either/or into a single yes/no phrased around one branch, where "no" means the other — e.g. "1. Should I include the script rewrite in this PR? (no = separate cleanup PR)". Never write a question with an embedded "or" offering two courses of action, and never list the two branches as pick-one options. This applies to approval and confirmation gates too: "Does this look right?" / "Ready to proceed?" becomes a yes/no — e.g. "1. Approve as-is? (no = tell me what to change)". Only when a choice has 3+ genuinely mutually-exclusive branches that can't reduce to yes/no, list them as numbered pick-one options or use AskQuestion. Exception — list-already-shown: if the immediately preceding text in your response already enumerates the candidates as a numbered list (i.e. each numbered item is a distinct thing to pick from, not a branch of a binary decision — e.g. "1. plan-A.md 2. plan-B.md"), the list IS the question. Don't restate it as N yes/no questions ("1. Pick plan A? 2. Pick plan B?") — that's redundant. Don't append a follow-up prompt either; the user will reply with the item number on their own.

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. 12d ago First seen · 7 lines · 327 tokens per session scan A 8157a6e89704

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yes-no-questions is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulbaranowski/wild-horses (12 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 327 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.