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.
npx agentmods add rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/general-coding-principlesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rulesWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/general-coding-principles)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/general-coding-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/general-coding-principles.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00182 | $0.00182 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00091 | $0.00091 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
general-coding-principles 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- general-coding-principles — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- general-coding-principles — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
description: Applies fundamental coding principles like DRY, KISS, YAGNI, and the Boy Scout Rule to all files in the project. globs: **/.
- Adhere to DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle by creating functions and classes for code reuse.
- Follow Curly's Law: Ensure each entity (class, function, variable) has one clear purpose.
- Apply KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle to maintain simplicity and avoid unnecessary complexity.
- Implement YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It): Avoid implementing features until they are actually needed.
- Refrain from premature optimization; focus on critical areas.
- Apply the Boy Scout Rule: Always leave the code better than you found it.
- Code for the maintainer, considering long-term maintainability.
- Follow the Principle of Least Astonishment; code should behave as expected.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 12 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A ff22fb3c771c
general-coding-principles is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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.
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