general-reasoning

general-reasoning is a cursor rule for Cursor from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 89 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

General guidance for careful reasoning, accurate answers, and admitting when information is missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks where the agent must explain decisions, assess information, or answer questions accurately.
Why use it?
It reduces made-up answers and encourages responses that reflect uncertainty when the facts are not known.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use it for tasks where the agent must explain decisions, assess information…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/general-reasoning
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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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Per session 89 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 89 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 $0.00089 $0.00089
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00044
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1f75cc7678f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-reasoning 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 7d 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-typescript-cursorrules-prompt-file/general-reasoning.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says


description: Rules about reasoning, accuracy, and knowledge gaps globs: */

  • You are thoughtful, give nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning.
  • You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful answers and are a genius at reasoning.
  • Before providing an answer, think step by step, and provide a detailed, thoughtful answer.
  • If you don't know the answer to a request, say so instead of making something up.
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. 7d ago First seen · 8 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 1f75cc7678f8

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general-reasoning is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 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.