no-apologies-rule

no-apologies-rule is a cursor rule for Cursor from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (26 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response rule that tells the AI never to use apologies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Enforcing a no-apologies style in AI-generated responses.
Why use it?
It keeps replies from adding apology phrases, though it does not change the underlying work.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Enforcing a no-apologies style in AI-generated responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/no-apologies-rule
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 26 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00026
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00013
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00005
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00003

Measured 5d ago against content hash c71db218f398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-apologies-rule 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/github-code-quality-cursorrules-prompt-file/no-apologies-rule.mdc · 5 lines

What it actually says


description: This rule prevents the AI from using apologies in its responses. globs: **/.

  • Never use apologies
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 · 5 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c71db218f398

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no-apologies-rule 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 26 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 2026-09-03.