pn-visual-indicator

pn-visual-indicator is a cursor rule for coding agents from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 807 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-labeling rule that adds a context tag and red triangle to replies affected by pnCore. The tag shows whether the reply came from a rule, command, agent, skill, or plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to mark assistant responses in Cursor's chat interface and distinguish different pnCore contexts.
Why use it?
It makes pnCore-related replies easy to spot and lets other tools identify their context from the text.

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/perniemann/pncore/pn-visual-indicator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perniemann/pnCore

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for pn-visual-indicator

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 807 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 807 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 $0.00807 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00404 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00161 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00081 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash b2f062c4861e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-visual-indicator 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/pn-core-mcp/content/rules/pn-visual-indicator.mdc · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual indicator

When the response was touched by pnCore this turn (see definition below), begin the response with a context tag followed by 🔺:

  • [pn-default] 🔺 — rules / default / no specific command or agent active.
  • [pn-command] 🔺 — your system prompt is a pn command (e.g. pn-new, pn-setup).
  • [pn-agent] 🔺 — your system prompt is a pn agent (e.g. pn-project-builder, pn-reviewer).
  • [pn-skill] 🔺 — responding primarily as a skill.
  • [pn-plan] 🔺 — Cursor IDE plan mode is active.

Use exactly one tag and one 🔺 (Unicode U+1F53A — emoji red triangle pointed up). A single space between tag and 🔺 is allowed for readability. The triangle is the same red emoji in every context; the [pn-*] text tag carries the context so clients/userscripts can still parse, filter, or restyle by context.

The emoji glyph is canonical because Cursor's chat does not apply our assets/pn-indicator.css to assistant markdown — the plain Unicode (U+25B2) inherits chat default text color (white/grey on dark themes). Emoji code points carry their own color and render red on every mainstream platform without CSS.

"Touched by pnCore" definition

Tag the response if any of the following happened this turn:

  • Called a tool from the pn-core-mcp MCP server (e.g. list_skills, get_skill, workflow_step, health, approval_checkpoint, list_workflow_types).
  • Read or applied a pnCore skill (packages/pn-core-mcp/content/skills/**/SKILL.md or its synced plugin copy under plugins/pnCore/skills/).
  • The active system prompt is a pnCore command (/pn-*) or agent (pn-* from agents/ or agents-internal/).
  • A pn-* rule was actually consulted as authoritative for the content of this response.
  • A pnCore MCP resource was fetched (e.g. pn-core://reference/aesthetics-baseline.md).

Do not tag a response solely because this rule (or any other alwaysApply pn rule) is loaded into context. Mere presence of a pn rule file is not a "touch" — there must be an actual contribution from a pn surface to the response.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 43 lines · 807 tokens per session scan A b2f062c4861e

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pn-visual-indicator is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 807 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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 2026-09-03.

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