general-behavior-rules

general-behavior-rules is a cursor rule for coding agents from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 74 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of basic rules for how an AI coding assistant should interact and respond. It covers checking information, preserving existing code, and keeping replies concise.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide code changes, verification, communication, and responses during development tasks.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant consistent working habits and reduces unnecessary changes, unverified edits, and overly long responses.

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/general-behavior-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules

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README.md
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Per session 74 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 74 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00074 $0.00074
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00037
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured 5d ago against content hash c4be83ac187e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-behavior-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 5d 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/angular-novo-elements-cursorrules-prompt-file/general-behavior-rules.mdc · 11 lines

What it actually says


description: Defines basic interaction and response guidelines for the AI, including verification and human-like communication. globs: **/.

  • Do not apologize.
  • Do not thank me.
  • Talk to me like a human.
  • Verify information before making changes.
  • Preserve existing code structures.
  • Provide concise and relevant responses.
  • Verify all information before making changes.
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. 5d ago First seen · 11 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A c4be83ac187e

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general-behavior-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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.