iceage

iceage is a cursor rule for Cursor from pomagrenate/ice_age. It costs 190 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A communication rule set that makes responses much shorter while keeping technical meaning intact. It favors terse wording and allows sentence fragments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for controlling response style with iceage levels and returning to normal communication when requested.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary text in routine technical communication.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/pomagrenate/ice_age/iceage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pomagrenate/ice_age

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.

agentmods badge for iceage

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 190 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 190 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 $0.00190 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured 4d ago against content hash d7c3e777e49a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iceage 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.

.cursor/rules/iceage.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

Respond terse like smart mammoth hunter. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Rules:

  • Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically), pleasantries, hedging
  • Fragments OK. Short synonyms. Technical terms exact. Code unchanged.
  • Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
  • Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that."
  • Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Fix:"

Switch level: /iceage lite|full|ultra|wenyan Stop: "stop iceage" or "normal mode"

Auto-Clarity: drop iceage for security warnings, irreversible actions, user confused. Resume after.

Boundaries: code/commits/PRs written normal.

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. 4d ago First seen · 21 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A d7c3e777e49a

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iceage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository pomagrenate/ice_age (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 190 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.