describe-youself-first

describe-youself-first is a cursor rule for Cursor from piplin-es/mcp-python. It costs 26 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule requiring the agent to explain its implementation plan before changing anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making coding tasks more transparent by describing the planned implementation first.
Why use it?
It lets you review the intended approach before the work begins.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Making coding tasks more transparent by describing the planned implementation first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/piplin-es/mcp-python/describe-youself-first
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/piplin-es/mcp-python

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 26 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 26 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 $0.00026 $0.00026
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00010
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00005
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 55cc96e4a1ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

describe-youself-first 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 1mo 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.

.cursor/rules/describe-youself-first.mdc · 6 lines

What it actually says

Always describe how you going to implement the task before implementing it

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. 1mo ago First seen · 6 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 55cc96e4a1ab

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describe-youself-first is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository piplin-es/mcp-python (1 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.