code-output-rules

A set of rules for returning complete code files. It requires the needed imports, declarations, surrounding code, and comments for important changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking for code changes, full files, or explanations of substantial additions. If a file is too large, it allows a complete relevant section with its place clearly marked.
Why use it?
It helps prevent code examples that are missing pieces and cannot run or be added directly to a project.

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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/code-output-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 116 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 $0.00116
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00058
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1374128e0afb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-output-rules 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

1/framework_rules/rules/chrome-extension-dev-js-typescript-cursorrules-pro/code-output-rules.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

  • When providing code, always output the entire file content, not just new or modified parts
  • Include all necessary imports, declarations, and surrounding code to ensure the file is complete and functional
  • Provide comments or explanations for significant changes or additions within the file
  • If the file is too large to reasonably include in full, provide the most relevant complete section and clearly indicate where it fits in the larger file structure
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. 2d ago First seen · 8 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 1374128e0afb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-output-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 116 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.